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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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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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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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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Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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I like to hire people that I've seen in action. I often hire people that were on the opposing side of a deal that I respect.
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He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.
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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.
