Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

One of my favorite comedies is 'Shaun of the Dead.'

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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.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Magazine

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Reading
  • Poetry
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Age
  • My Life

• I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fight
  • Liberty
  • Terrorism

• I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Believe
  • Design
  • Goal

• In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Fact
  • Nuclear
  • Soap

• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Want
  • Winter
  • Fast

• 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.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Write
  • Paper

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • King
  • Fierce

• 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

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Mother
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• 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.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Society
  • Law

• The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Attention

• I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • Law

• I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life
  • God
  • Thinking

• Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Argument

• We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

  

  David Brock
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than material reality.

  

  Anton Zeilinger
  • Reality
  • Knowledge
  • Fundamental

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• One of my favorite comedies is 'Shaun of the Dead.'

  

  Kumail Nanjiani