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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience Purpose American You Just

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

John Barton

Respect Writing Privacy Sometimes

If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.

Stephen Kinzer

Women Children Egypt Active Example

I want to do amazing roles fit for my age in 30 years. I'm sure I'll be less popular and have less offers then, but I think I'll be able to do act well for my age at the time.

Song Joong-ki

Age Time Amazing Think Want Years

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.

Tony Fadell

Experience Me Computers Doing Apple

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Robert Frost

Life You Fall Aim Accept Way

From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.

Rose Leslie

Age Myself Young Older Young Age

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

Ron Fournier

Compromise Dirty Washington Become

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

Russ Feingold

Face American Little Offensive Part

There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.

Judith Rodin

Work Innovation Government World End

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

Jay S. Walker

Innovation Imagination Value Thinking

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

Dean Geyer

Family Music Sports School Singing

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

Chris Gibson

Strength Peace Talking You Talk