"My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.”
“Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.”
“If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.”
“Well, sex is life. You know, if you don't do it anymore, you can take a spoon and go into the woods and dig yourself a hole and be finished! Eroticism is the driving force behind everything in the world.”
“In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
“Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.”

Source : "Pitbull: 5 surprising facts about the superstar" By Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2014.
“Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.”

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