Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine.

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• I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Work
  • Why
  • Kids

• It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wife

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Ocean

• The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Party
  • Trust
  • Something

• As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Important
  • Health
  • Racial

• I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Clean

• If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.

  

  Randy Falco
  • World
  • Reality
  • Taken

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • She
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• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Mind
  • High

• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Me
  • Day
  • New York

• Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Business
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Find
  • Grace

• I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Kid
  • I Remember
  • Member

• I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Up
  • Small
  • Growing

• The first thing that was intimidating was when I started rehearsing to play Riff in the London company. That first day of rehearsal, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm never going to learn this. I'm too slow.'

  

  George Chakiris
  • Intimidating
  • Rehearsing

• I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Time
  • Working
  • Year

• There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • World
  • History
  • Sleep

• I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani