Karan Mahajan Quotes
When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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Politics is a good thing!
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
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I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
