"I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but ***** exerts a strong force on you, and one way to get further away from it would be to immerse yourself in a strong religious system."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Karan Mahajan

#Religious Quotes #Strong Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.”
“Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.”
“Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?”
“I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.”
“Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent.”
“I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.”

Source : Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (1997). “Giorgio Morandi”, Rizzoli International Publications
“The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.”

Source : "How Much Bigger Can The Bang Get?". Interview with Amy Wallace, articles.latimes.com. August 9, 1998.
“You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.”

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