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Vertigo is the conflict betwee...

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Salman Rushdie 630 quotes

What is freedom of expression?...

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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If you actually want to change...

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Salman Rushdie 630 quotes

The response of anybody intere...

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Salman Rushdie 630 quotes

The only way of living in a fr...

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as mu...

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

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If I were asked for a one-sent...

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

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What one writer can make in th...

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

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There is a widespread difficul...

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

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If you take a look at history,...

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

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I've never had very high regar...

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

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I do not need the idea of God ...

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

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Rock and roll music - the musi...

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

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A poet's work is to name the u...

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

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When I was growing up, everyon...

When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

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What is needed is a move beyon...

What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance;

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Too many people had spent too ...

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

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There is no magic on earth str...

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

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There is a point beyond which ...

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

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Some people are paralyzed by t...

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....