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Being Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust…
- Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
- Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
- I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
- In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
- Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out…
- The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
- The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
- The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
- You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
- I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
- If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100…
- One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
- One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my…
- The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as…
- 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…
- We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in…
More Being Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong