Maz Jobrani Quotes
My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I'm cranky.
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I am not honest.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Parenting is tough.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
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On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.
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While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.
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My parents were the exact opposite of stage parents. They did everything in their power to keep it from happening. But it was going to happen no matter what. I was like, 'Thanks for raising me, but I'm going to take it from here.'
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My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.
