Salman Rushdie quotes - page 8

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point. (Salman Rushdie)

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

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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.

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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything. (Salman Rushdie)

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies. (Salman Rushdie)

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

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