Salman Rushdie Quotes
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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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.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
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My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships . . ." They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
