Salman Rushdie Quotes
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'Salman Rushdie
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
Ted Dekker -
Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
Ed Emberley -
Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Geffen was never supportive of the band.
Edie Brickell -
I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
Najib Mikati
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
Wendy Kopp
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
Waylon Jennings -
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton -
When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
Samantha Mathis -
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
Irvine Welsh -
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter -
If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
Naima Adedapo
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I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.
Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective -
When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
Gaby Hoffmann -
No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
Mary Gordon -
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Nate Parker -
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Salman Rushdie