"It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.”

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.
“People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.”

Source : "Q&A With Teen Queen Lindsay Lohan". Interview, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2004.
“Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.”

Source : "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.
“You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.”
“Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.”
“Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.”
“I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.”

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