Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
Dan Marino -
Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
Yehuda Berg -
Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
Gary Johnson -
The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul -
We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
F. Sionil Jose -
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
Zara Larsson
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
Barbara Sukowa -
I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
Tea Leoni -
What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
Narada Michael Walden -
The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
Karisma Kapoor -
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
Daniel Gilbert -
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Said Nursi -
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
Natalie Portman -
When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
Carlos Ghosn -
When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
Manika -
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
Taya Kyle
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Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
Sergio Aragones -
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
Malorie Blackman -
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes -
Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
Barry Ritholtz -
Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
Najib Razak -
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Salman Rushdie