Maz Jobrani Quotes

You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'

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• I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Stage

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Bad
  • Nothing
  • Going

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Explain

• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Death
  • Know
  • Lost

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Think
  • Sports

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Church

• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

  

  Alfred Enoch
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I have haters. I have so many haters.

  

  Kesha
  • Haters

• You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Together