Salman Rushdie Quotes
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Broadway is really my life.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.
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When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.
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We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it's not owing like a debt to one person--it's really that we owe everyone for everything. Our whole lives can change in an instant--so each person that keeps that from happening, no matter how small a role they play, is also responsible for all of it. Just by giving friendship and love, you keep the people around you from giving up--and each expression of friendship or love may be the one that makes all the difference.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
