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Salman Rushdie Quotes

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Free Problems Speech You

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.

Time War Slavery Back Stop Shame

There's no future in being poor.

Future Poor Being No Future

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

Work Education Special Like Kids

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Effort Political Security Place More

What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes... is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who've never seen one or seen the effects of one.

Stanley A. McChrystal

People Me World American Never Seen

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Good Over Self-Doubt Rarely Patients

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

Strength God Wisdom Day Grace Get

I told myself when I was broke and homeless that my biggest goal was just to have a house. That goal was achieved. I'm just really, really lucky.

Myself Homeless House Goal Lucky

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

Doing Camera You Back Want Movement

People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.

Michelle Forbes

People Me Think You True Become

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Women Why Understand Whole Off Idea

Poyha is a venison dish handed down from the Cherokee tribe. You can think of it as a meatloaf, which it is, or as a skillet of cornbread that some venison sneaked into, which it also is. Either way, it's a simple and satisfying meal.

Simple Think You Down Way Meal

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