Salman Rushdie Quotes
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.
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Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
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I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.
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By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
