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.
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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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A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.
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People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.
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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.
