"In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.”
“I know you can be funny without being filthy.”

Source : "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview With Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.
“Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.”
“To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.”

Source : Song: Rite Of Passage
“There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.”
“The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.”
“There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.”

Source : "POLITICO interviews Piers Morgan". Interview with Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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