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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God bless nannies.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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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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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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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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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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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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"Spirituality comes from questioning everything but at the same time accepting everything. You can even be spiritual watching TV. When the ad comes on and says, "Don't hate me because I am beautiful," question that."
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Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
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Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
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Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
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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.
