Maz Jobrani Quotes

I remember I was in a San Francisco nightclub, and I started talking to some girl, and it was like, 'Hey, what's going on, what's your name?' You know, 'Where are you from?' I go, 'I'm from Iran.' And literally, she just looked at me and walked away.

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• When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Always
  • Try

• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  

  Tacitus
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  • Chastity

• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • Up
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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
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• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Future
  • Man
  • Dog

• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

  

  Damien Hirst
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  • Best
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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
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  • Magic

• Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
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  • Football

• I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

  

  Uri Geller
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• I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

  

  C. K. Williams
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• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• I'm a girl who loves shoes. There is nothing like the feeling of trying on shoes at the store and they fit perfectly.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Trying
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• If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

  

  Randy Newman
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  • Know
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• My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.

  

  Jack Huston
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• She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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  • Wine
  • Entrepreneur

• In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

  

  Benjamin Earl King

• Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • People
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• The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

  

  John Burnside
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  • Reading

• I remember I was in a San Francisco nightclub, and I started talking to some girl, and it was like, 'Hey, what's going on, what's your name?' You know, 'Where are you from?' I go, 'I'm from Iran.' And literally, she just looked at me and walked away.

  

  Maz Jobrani
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