Salman Rushdie Quotes
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
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On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.
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I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
