Salman Rushdie Quotes

Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

Salman Rushdie

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• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Me

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Model
  • Personality

• People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Lost
  • Present
  • Moment

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
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• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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  • Kids
  • You

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
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• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Democracy
  • Boards
  • Corporate

• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Islam

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • World
  • Great
  • Father

• We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • May
  • Innovation

• Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Philosophy
  • Genius
  • Consequence

• Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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