Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

Kumail Nanjiani

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

  

  Felix Feneon
  • Never
  • Eternity
  • Studying

• You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • You
  • Someone
  • Without

• If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Change
  • Will
  • Back

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Terrible
  • After
  • Turned

• History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • People
  • History
  • Want

• I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Career
  • You
  • Rest

• First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • House
  • Sleep
  • First

• If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Problem
  • Human
  • Entrepreneur

• I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Work
  • Great
  • Switzerland

• I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Earth
  • Dad
  • Background

• I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Life
  • Character
  • Interesting

• This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• All the causes of the sufferance refer themselves to this rule, that the strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Health
  • Hurt

• It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Success

• I would love to work with Pharrell one day. Like, my biggest dream.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Work
  • Dream

• The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

  

  Kathy Valentine
  • Good
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Black
  • Light
  • Sensation

• You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Yourself

• Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani