Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.
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Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again.
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After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.
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My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.
