Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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Evil is movement towards void.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.
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I think most people don't know that I really write everything myself. No help. There's nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don't think I'm a singer. They think I'm a rapper.
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You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.
