Salman Rushdie Quotes
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang -
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
Patrice Leconte -
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Jack Ma -
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
Rabih Alameddine -
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Dan O'Brien -
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
Pablo Sandoval -
I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
Aaron Sorkin -
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
Daisy Fuentes -
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
OMI -
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid -
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel -
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
Fidel Castro -
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber
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People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
Mary Quant -
The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
Ziad Doueiri -
You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.
James Surowiecki -
at the Engvalls' home, Travis is about to play on the piano.
Bill Engvall -
Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.
Joan Lunden -
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie