"No, I don't think it's fair to label……" — Salman Rushdie
"No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
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I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish.…
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are…
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If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live…
— Jacque Fresco
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I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,
— Blaize Clement
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I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat…
— Vincent Gallo
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Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.
— Robin Williams
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The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you…
— Verne Troyer
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A…
— Warren E. Burger
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I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
— Alan Moore
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The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in…
— Howard Rheingold
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The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so…
— Jodi Picoult
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Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer…
— Wendell Berry
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