Salman Rushdie Quotes
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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We all get self-centered.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.
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I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
