Salman Rushdie Quotes
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.Salman Rushdie
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
Adam Peaty -
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
Danica McKellar -
I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
Kate Brown -
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
Dan Chaon
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
Carlos Fuentes -
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
Ted Cruz -
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
Maggie Q -
I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
Qandeel Baloch -
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
Gavin Newsom -
They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
Nancy Pelosi
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Life doesn't stop with football.
Barry Sanders -
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner -
Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
Fiona McIntosh -
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
Pamela Meyer
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Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. Chidambaram -
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
R. C. Sproul -
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell -
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Patricia Ireland -
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
Dominic Chianese -
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
Salman Rushdie