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Salman Rushdie Quotes

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Bad Review Only Would Worse

Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.

Jerry Della Femina

Best War People Advertising Go Done

If it came down to it, I wish people heard different records from me that I know give you a soul R&B sound of music that I know is really my gift, gift. But the ones that usually go are the records that radio, the fans and the clubs really love the most.

Love Music Soul People Me Gift

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

Christian Mercy Him Being Far Who

The making of the Barack Obama franchise far exceeded the skill set of Washington's best. In fact, the recipe for Mr. Obama's global popularity can be attributed less to political minds and chance than to the enduring power of Hollywood.

Andrew Breitbart

Power Best Chance Political Skill

I can't just say everything that I feel because, at the end of the day, I am a product.

Day I Am End Of The Day End Feel

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Power Job Balance Government Media

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

Joyce Carol Oates

Time My Time Spend Written Revising

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Sports Play Tennis Used Squash Lot

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

Parents Me Lawyer Argument Lost

The James Brown we saw tended to be the James Brown we chose to see: as the caped crusader of funk and soul, adored by millions, or as the face in a seemingly endless series of mug shots. The ways in which he appealed to and appalled different audiences made Brown a kind of national Rorschach test.

Soul Face Kind Test See Saw

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

Love Writing Book Blind Search

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

I Am Suffering Saying Think Ignore

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