Salman Rushdie Quotes
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
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I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
