Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.
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As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.
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We are confident that infrastructure projects will continue driving demand for building materials over the medium-term.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.
