Quote by Salman Rushdie
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have

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

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

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Fear
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie

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great
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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Change
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Society
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

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Society

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that Ive been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and thats been great, man. A lot of people dont have that platform. – George A. Romero

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Society

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. – Audre Lorde

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Society

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. Its called competition. And competition is antagonism. – Edward Bond

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Society

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Im 23 years old. I might just be my mothers child, but in all reality, Im everybodys child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society. – Tupac Shakur

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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what pull my finger meant the hard way. – Danica McKellar

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We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and Im lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see whats out there and see whats happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way. – Jennifer Garner

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Education

When we were filming The Darkest Hour, we didnt even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didnt even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when youre just generating them from your own imagination. – Olivia Thirlby

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Imagination