![It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-defending-salmon-rushdie-was-if-i-can-phrase-it-like-this-a-matter-of-ever.jpg)
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bullying racism way
This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there. Aasif Mandvi
bullying strong tactics
If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics. Charles Djou
bullying thinking knows
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
bullying phones cells
I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there. Chris Colfer
bullying hurt thinking
When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.
bullying people personality
It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality. And I understand why some people would then characterize that, especially people who don't like you, as bullying, but it's not that. Chris Christie
bullying reality views
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's. Kurt Vonnegut
bullying pain kids
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain. Cat Cora
bullying people wish
People don't realize how badly verbal harassment and cyber bullying affects you. I wish they had hit me in the face and gotten it over with, because what they said to me, sticks to me to this day. It affected me into the person that I am today. Demi Lovato
hate fighting way
...that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place. Carlos Castaneda
hate house bricks
I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish." Carl Andre
hate believe hatred
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. C. S. Lewis
hate people mind
I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.
hate mark night seniors special whenever
Whenever you have seniors you hate to see them go. I know it was a special night for Mark and Jason. Tom Borrelli
hate head injury needs open rhythm takes taking tendency time turn whenever
Whenever you come back from an injury like that, it takes time to get your rhythm back. The only thing I tell Caron is, 'Keep taking open shots. Don't turn down shots.' Sometimes he has a tendency to do that, to put his head down. I hate when he does that. He needs to keep shooting. Eddie Jones
hate people
We want people who hate to lose, like myself. Now marinate on that. Snoop Dogg
hate i-hate should
I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time. Agnes Varda
hate cat race
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering. Agnes Repplier
expression people feelings
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.
expression understanding identity
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression. Charles Taylor
expression fly
The expression that they've used is I fly the plane.
expression eyes hugging stop
The expression in her eyes was an expression that Byron had described to us as the look of hope. I couldn't stop myself from hugging her.
expression others
What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
expression air speech
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. Bret Harte
expression who-i-am kind
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do. David Sanborn
expression dies
That'll be the day when I die. Buddy Holly
expression spirituality achieve
Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good Brunello Cucinelli