Salman Rushdie Quotes

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DeserveUsAgreeOurManyWays

I think it's the hardest thing to remind yourself you have to do it the way you would do it. Because no one else is going to do it that way. If you don't do it, then no one else will - and the world won't see it.

Jessie Mueller

YourselfWorldThinkYouWillWay

If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, then they are entitled to compensation.

Robert Rinder

SomeoneResultPersonSeriouslyThen

If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more.

Matthew Desmond

DecisionRichCountryStopHousing

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

Steve Guttenberg

ActorMoreScreenShotThanApart

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Ron Chernow

New YorkIdentityEarlyNewEven

The RNC, per our bylaws, cannot engage in primaries. That is not our role. We actually have a rule that prohibits us from picking a candidate in the primaries.

Ronna McDaniel

EngageRuleUsRoleCandidateOur

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Mason Cooley

PeoplePromisesMagicAskDisappear

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

Martin Seligman

LifeChildrenMeaningRelationships

We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.

Louise Wilson

AlwaysJumpingCompeteWouldHorses

I don't know what's in store for me, but I know that I want to create work, and I want to create an environment where I can bring in my favorite people and collaborate with them, and do something that is so much weirder and so different from what you'd see in commercial film.

Lucas Hedges

WorkPeopleMeEnvironmentYouKnow

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

Jay Rockefeller

CommunitySafetyCountryWillWhole

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.

Douglas Feith

KnowImportantActivitiesSyriaIraq

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