Salman Rushdie Quotes
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
Adam Garcia
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
Ted Cruz
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
Katey Sagal
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
Warren Beatty
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
Randi Weingarten
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
Pat Quinn
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Jodie Foster
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That'll be the police for you now...
Eddie Mair
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
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I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
Lucille Ball
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie
