Maz Jobrani Quotes
Racism has always existed, and a big part of it is people just not knowing others. I think humans change other human's minds, and it's hard for someone in the middle of America to hate Syrian refugees if they've been able to befriend them.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language ... not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
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I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
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Racism has always existed, and a big part of it is people just not knowing others. I think humans change other human's minds, and it's hard for someone in the middle of America to hate Syrian refugees if they've been able to befriend them.
