Salman Rushdie Quotes
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.Salman Rushdie
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
Ralph Brown -
A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln -
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T -
My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
Florentijn Hofman
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
Daniel Craig -
Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
Fabrizio Moreira -
When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
Maggie Hassan -
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig -
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot -
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
Garry Wills -
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph -
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White -
Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
Fatos Nano
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My family is more important than my party.
Zell Miller -
It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
Oscar Wilde -
To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
Alfred Molina -
People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
Taylor Swift -
I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.
Artie Lange -
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
Salman Rushdie