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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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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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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
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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.
