Salman Rushdie Quotes
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
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Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.
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Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
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No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
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I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
