Salman Rushdie Quotes
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
