Salman Rushdie Quotes

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Jerry Lewis

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I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.

Andrae Crouch

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I've come to realize I'm a professional, no matter if I'm 38, no matter if I'm 19 or 20. I'm a professional.

Michael Beasley

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I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

Steve Alford

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I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot.

Sukhwinder Singh

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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Shirley Manson

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I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Ronnie Wood

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In a sense, the rumours suggesting I had quit were true: I had retired, but only from the personal-appearance end. I did that because I had always felt conspicuous onstage, and I'm not the sort of person who likes to be an exhibitionist.

Marvin Gaye

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There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Jay Weatherill

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The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.

Jools Holland

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I have thin skin, so I have to work on my cellulite by exercising.

Debra Stephenson

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To live is to die.

Cliff Burton

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