Salman Rushdie Quotes
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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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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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
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When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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The heart of Man is not compound of lies, but draws some wisdom from the only Wise.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
