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Salman Rushdie Quotes

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Free Speech Down Side Obvious

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

Someone You Missed Out Point BBC

Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

Opportunity Myself Football People

I want to entertain.

I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New York Stock Exchange, and then I'd come home and write.

Jennifer Konner

Home New York Bed New Write Out

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education Think Teach Minds Possible

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Enthusiasm Teach Way Interest Sure

That's why I can't listen to a whole record of Adele's. She has the most amazing voice, but people must have convinced her they just want to hear love songs.

Lukas Forchhammer

Love People Amazing Voice Want Why

My kids would not get in to bed every night without me telling them that I loved them.

Lisa Vanderpump

Me Night Loved Bed Without Get

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Change You Always Vegetarian Meat

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia.

Life Moment Me Doctor My Life Cured

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.

Music Soul People Roots Black End

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

Christopher Guest

Sports Men Baseball People Think

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