Salman Rushdie Quotes
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.
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It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
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While it may seem scarier in the earlier days, I think ultimately the blockchain creates a safer world.
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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
