Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
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Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.
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YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare.
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Value differences in painting always cut in; color differences always go side by side. Laterally. Color differences can illustrate three dimensional form, but using color in terms of hue belongs more properly to painting than modelling with dark and light as in sculpting does.
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I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.
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A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.
