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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Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.
Charles Handy -
I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
Dak Prescott -
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Behold, illumin'd by th' instructive age, That great phenomenon, a Sceptred Sage. There Stanislaus unfolds his prudent plan, Tears the strong bandage from the eyes of man, Points the progressive march, and shapes the way, That leads a realm from darkness into day.
Joel Barlow -
You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'
Mark McKinnon -
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Salman Rushdie