Salman Rushdie Quotes

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

John Boyega

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.

Stephanie Sigman

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I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.

Sophia Myles

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You have to be really, really careful how you use bitcoin in order to use it privately.

Roger Ver

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People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That's what gay guys are, right? You're an accessory for my straight life.' Just because your limited view is that everyone's there to serve you and that you're the only person in the world. It doesn't work that way.

RuPaul

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For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

Mike D

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Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Jon Krakauer

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When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

David Shields

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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

David Suzuki

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Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Christopher Plummer

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