Salman Rushdie Quotes
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I love books.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
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We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
