Salman Rushdie Quotes

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

Joe Manganiello

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I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

Jill Scott

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My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

Jeb Bush

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I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

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There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

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I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Joshua Lederberg

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

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When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.

Donna Langley

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For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

Peter O'Toole

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'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.

Scott Ellis

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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Markus Zusak

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