Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
I know what is funny coming out of my mouth and what is not funny coming out of my mouth. You have to figure out, What is the joke that I can do that nobody else can do?
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I always have to be writing.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
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If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
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One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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We felt like we had some other players that fit the role for us and do a lot of things for us. It was a competitive thing.
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There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird.
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I know what is funny coming out of my mouth and what is not funny coming out of my mouth. You have to figure out, What is the joke that I can do that nobody else can do?
