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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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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.
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I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
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I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can’t hurt you.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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.
