Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I'm a very ambitious person. I've been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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Mere abuse is no criticism.
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Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. - 1940-1943
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The royal duty of non-opposition is a reminder that the legitimacy of government is founded on the consent of the people, who may withdraw their mandate at any time if they lose confidence in the ability of the ruler to serve their best interests.
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The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
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The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
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Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.
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Being the oldest sometimes meant being everyone's boss, but mostly, it meant being everyone's pack mule.
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Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.
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When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.
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New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Shaun of the Dead.'