Karan Mahajan Quotes
I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.

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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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History's a resource.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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The heart of a Mahatma is like the tamarind seed perfectly pure. These Mahatmas are ever young. For a Jnyani, there is no age-idea.
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Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
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I pretty much wait for inspiration, then sit down at the piano or with the guitar. If I come up with something pretty cool, I put it on tape. If not, I just put the guitar down. I know these Nashville guys have a time each day they write, like a job. But I don't want a job! I like being a bum! My mother still asks me: "When are you gonna get a job?"
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I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.