Maz Jobrani Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
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There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.
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I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
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You know, funny can be universal.
