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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Meaning You Find Go Get Sure

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

Children I Am Problem Growing Abuse

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Mother Master Craftsman Us Idols

I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vision - I didn't really have peripheral vision or see the world and what was happening. I'm much more worldly, and I believe that I'm much more grounded in my body than I probably was when I was younger.

Vision World Believe Think Body See

Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

Love Environmental You Smoke Young

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

Love Woman I Am Not Perfect Loved

Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.

Mohamed ElBaradei

World Existence Nuclear Weapons Sense

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself.

Childhood Satisfaction Goodness Right

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

Work Children Responsibility Learn

Honestly, if it wasn't for 'Beetlejuice,' where would I be? That movie was a big thing for me.

Me Big Where Would Movie Thing

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

View New Things Level Jersey Should

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Thomas Friedman

Health Care Better Know Need Kids

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.

Spring Green American Army Debate

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