Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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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.
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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.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella's tights wouldn't gather at her ankle when her foot bent, so I kept trying to make sure that I didn't get those little creases on my ankle because Cinderella didn't have them.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this, I relaxed. Our bodies do not stand still for time.
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I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
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Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.
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Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
