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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Free Motion Friction Free Societies

I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?

Past Think Questions You Country

I've noticed that some Democrats, who seldom mention their faith or maybe never mention their faith, will seize on to a phrase that Pope Francis may have said, and they want to attach themselves to that agenda. Political opportunists is what they are.

Faith Political Said Want Seize May

You can't play someone and judge them at the same time.

Sterling K. Brown

Time Judge Someone You Play Same

By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

Time Space Ego Lose Over Get

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Wrong Sometimes Human Reason Things

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Life Government Earth Never Size

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Business Finance People Writing

I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day.

Music Day Seriously Listen Two Hour

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

Wealth Development Race Resources

A company gets better at the things it practices.

Better Company Things Gets Practices

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

You Way Sound Things Different Mine

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.

Technology Focus People Cool Forward

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