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Salman Rushdie Quotes

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Years 100 Years May Lifetime

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Birthday Live Cake Night Wish Goal

If you can improve your franchise, even if you're doing well, you're going to make that move. You just are - at least I am. It's about winning and winning the right way and trying to sustain success over a large period of time.

Success Time I Am Winning Doing You

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

Good Soul Programming Programmer

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Effort Christmas Been Steal

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

Things Like Rid Really Getting

But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

Strong Environment Doing Early High

I'd never worn a tie before. I was a bushman.

Never Tie Before Worn

You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

Time Best You Play Out Going

Death by starvation is slow.

Mary Hunter Austin

Death Slow Starvation

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Douglas Coupland

Goals Enough You Become Never Big

As Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.

Men Tools Donald Trump Crisis Skills

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Movement Split Been Critical Much

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