Salman Rushdie Quotes

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Salman Rushdie

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• It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Education

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Day
  • Him

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Small

• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • World
  • Country
  • Grow

• Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Way
  • Imagination
  • Rome

• I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • World
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Military
  • Impact

• I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Get
  • Recognized

• I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Think

• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • True
  • Influence

• People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Thank God for product and blusher.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • God
  • Product
  • Thank God

• I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Political
  • Philosophical
  • Anti-Semitism

• Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • God
  • Brave

• The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Form

• I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Interests
  • Abilities
  • Dominate

• To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Word
  • Subject
  • Glorious

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie