Karan Johar Quotes
Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I know all the critics.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.
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Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
