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.Salman Rushdie
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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.
C. S. Lewis -
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
Daniel Bryan -
We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
Narendra Modi -
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?
Walt Whitman
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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.'
Ralph Lauren -
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.
Jack Nicklaus -
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Bear Grylls -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner -
I'm a really bad liar.
Daniel Craig -
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
Vicki Lawrence
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
Victoria Justice -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
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.
Zach Anner -
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.
Larry Smith -
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant -
I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
Vidal Sassoon
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I think lower wages have made men much less marriageable than they were before. It's not just like your job goes to hell. Your marriage goes to hell. You don't know your children anymore. Your children have a higher chance of being screwed up.
Angus Deaton -
Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
Pam Houston -
The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
Bill Murray -
Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
Dan Pink -
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.
Salman Rushdie