Salman Rushdie Quotes
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I am healthy and happy.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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Fortunately, when Benazir Bhutto was prime minister, she banned public whipping of women - banned whipping of women, period, which is a marvelous thing she did.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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If we reorganize and reform the enormous human and technological intelligence assets America has, as the commission has recommended, we will be able to see, hear and stop the terrorist attacks against us before they occur.
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We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
