Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
Kumail Nanjiani
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
Walter O'Brien
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
Eartha Kitt
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Wade Boggs
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
Brown Campbell
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
Twyla Tharp
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It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Lee Atwater
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I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
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The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.
David A. Siegel
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Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
Kumail Nanjiani