Salman Rushdie Quotes
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
