Salman Rushdie Quotes

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.

Joe Garcia

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I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

Jo Brand

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When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesting. I'll probably watch that at some point, but I'm not interested at all to be in it.'

Joel Kinnaman

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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

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For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.

Tony McCoy

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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

Tom Rachman

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My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

Robin McLeavy

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If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

Robert Wilson

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Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.

Mike Quigley

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I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

Liz Murray

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You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

Jayson Blair

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Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.

Jason Fried

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