Salman Rushdie Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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I still have a young attitude.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
