Salman Rushdie Quotes
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
