Maz Jobrani Quotes
Every time I see Trump on TV these days, I'm waiting for him to burst out, 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' That would make sense to me - that this has all been one long 'Saturday Night Live' sketch.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
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I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
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I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
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Every time I see Trump on TV these days, I'm waiting for him to burst out, 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' That would make sense to me - that this has all been one long 'Saturday Night Live' sketch.
