Salman Rushdie Quotes

In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Jimi Hendrix

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Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

John Bradshaw

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What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

Robert Stone

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In life you need to take a risk.

Stefano Gabbana

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Standardized tests don't care if you're white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you're supposed to know. It can't be cheated, bent, or bargained with.

Steven Crowder

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I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

Rufus Sewell

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Can I take on the Republican Party machine? Get real. No. Zero percent.

Mike Cernovich

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If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

Michele Bachmann

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I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

Louise Nurding

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I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.

Lou Barlow

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I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

Diane Mott Davidson

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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

Colm Toibin

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