Salman Rushdie Quotes
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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Death, doom and destruction rain down upon the forsaken. One being stands alone to save humanity. A soldier born from the past on sad wings of destiny. Powerful, unflinching and hearing the eternal forcethat will proclaim and assert metal's deliverance - The Redeemer of Souls!
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Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.
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Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
