Salman Rushdie Quotes
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
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Igor: My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.
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I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.
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I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.
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I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man - it doesn't matter - a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.
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The world is a very abnormal place.
