Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
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I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
