Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and make tough decisions, in order to achieve something extraordinary.


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SALMAN RUSHDIE
It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and t...
SALMAN KHAN
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are...
SALMAN KHAN
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the A...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a b...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goa...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosop...
SALMAN KHAN
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I wr...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don&...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternativ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word."

[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Me...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? Wh...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
American literature has always been immigrant.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the ...
SALMAN KHAN
Thanks will be a worthless word until a person tells it from heart. When a person thanks someone wit...
SALMAN AZIZ
People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try...
SALMAN AZIZ
We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. ...
SALMAN AZIZ
When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to ...
SALMAN AZIZ
People change just in a blink! You won’t get any explanation for that. They change in front of you...
SALMAN AZIZ
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the f...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously unde...
SALMAN KHAN
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to de...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildin...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is ...
SALMAN KHAN
These are the kinds of curious, mysterious, and original minds that often end up making major contri...
SALMAN KHAN
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in ret...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Our lives teach us who we are.
SALMAN RUSHDIE