Karan Mahajan Quotes
In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I'm not saying this is ideal - it's how it is. You're tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
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With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.
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When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
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Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'
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I can't watch the news anymore. They have their priorities all out of whack. All I see is Natalee Holloway and Britney Spears and the war in Iraq. Where's the substantive news? Where's the Zach Braff coverage?
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In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I'm not saying this is ideal - it's how it is. You're tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.
