Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.
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I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.
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I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.
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Remember, people make you who you are.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
