Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.

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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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It's nice to always have been able to remain consistent. I'm very thankful for that and to work on shows that I can be proud of, and films.
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There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.
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It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
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Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
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People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.
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Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.