Salman Rushdie Quotes
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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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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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.
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I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
