Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
In popular culture, there isn't any other conception of Islam and Muslims other than what you see on the news... When you go to a theme park, you see Muslims riding roller coasters and eating ice cream. Why doesn't anybody think of those Muslims when they think of Muslims?Kumail Nanjiani
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
J. R. Moehringer -
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
Kate Winslet -
If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
Hailey Bieber -
When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
Barry McGuire -
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy -
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
Ed Asner
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo -
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane -
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy -
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
Ralph Adams Cram -
All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
Larry Cohen -
I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
Zoe Saldana
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
Jack Dorsey -
You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
Orlando Bloom -
Great books are rare.
Ian Hacking -
I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
Zendaya -
Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
Kara Swisher
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I think the hardest thing is to design for plus-size women. I enjoyed designing for straight-size because there's no limits. They can basically wear anything, and that's where I was able to have creative freedom with it.
Ashley Nell Tipton -
The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth is in the field of Republican presidential candidates.
Conan O'Brien -
In Nietzsche’s view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.
Martin Heidegger -
Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
Naveen Jain -
I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.
Tyler Farr -
In popular culture, there isn't any other conception of Islam and Muslims other than what you see on the news... When you go to a theme park, you see Muslims riding roller coasters and eating ice cream. Why doesn't anybody think of those Muslims when they think of Muslims?
Kumail Nanjiani