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Salman Rushdie Quotes

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: June 19, 1947

Topics

Religion People Violence Nothing Act

To add value to others, one must first value others.

John C. Maxwell

Value Others First Must Add

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

Max Levchin

Growth Technology Perfect Economic

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

John Lanchester

Alone Experience Me Thought Image

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

John Wilkins

Men Words Strive Hard Convince Rule

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

Merce Cunningham

Day Dance Every Day Class Open Come

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

Solange Knowles

God Myself Decision Person Give Any

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Robert Walpole

Patriotism Patriot Up Demand Starts

When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.

Robert Zemeckis

Fight People New Know Now See

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Mary Augusta Ward

Training Intellectual Years Wasted

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Luis Bunuel

Love Ten Years Rise Go Horror Years

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Jean de la Bruyere

World Diamonds Sound Judgment Pearls

As coaches, we usually have plenty of changes from one year to the next. Sometimes it seems like it's at one position. Sometimes it's across the board. But this is really a part of every year that we have in coaching in the NFL.

Josh McDaniels

Coaching Year Sometimes Changes Next