Salman Rushdie Quotes
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.
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Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.
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My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
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Walking around without makeup all the time! I know that you should not do, but this is what I like to do and now it's really comfortable and fun. In this chaos is really nice to have someone where you can sit on the couch and not worry about it.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
