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 think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
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 don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.
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Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.
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When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
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Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.
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Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.
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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.
