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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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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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
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Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
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Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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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.
