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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Peace Sibling Tolerance Related

I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

Good Think Country Want Why Serve

Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.

Purpose War Internet Hotel Meeting

What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.

Work Finance Support Details Finding

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

Mary Kay Andrews

Me Vintage Know Up Antique Things

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Martin O'Malley

Live Parents Win World Adapt Must

When I think about unique insight, what I think about is here's your opportunity to tell me something that I don't know.

Opportunity Me Think Unique Know

When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people.

Molly Crabapple

Live New York People You Artist New

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

Freedom Fun Win Have Fun You Always

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

Funny Injuries Handle Different Them

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Soviet Soviet Union Union Outstanding

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

Waiting Breakfast Lunch Colleagues

He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.

Good Cute Baby Weird Stop Cry

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