Karan Johar Quotes
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
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I am a Buddhist.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
