Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
Zendaya
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
Natalie Zea
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
J. K. Simmons
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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 I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
FKA twigs
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
Aaron Rodgers
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
Caitlin Moran
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
Taraji P. Henson
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Dag Hammarskjold
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
Warren Rudman
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Daniel Barenboim
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
Edmund Morgan
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Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.
Paul Davies
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
Ed Weeks
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The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
Drew Houston
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It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.
Claude-Michel Schonberg
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
Salman Rushdie
