Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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I am not honest.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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God does arithmetic.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
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I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.
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It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is.
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While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
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Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.
