Maz Jobrani Quotes

If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.

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• For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
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• The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

  

  Aaron Levie
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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

  

  Naomi Scott
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• Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
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• I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Try
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• All of my high school issues are resolved!

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • School
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• The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Influence
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• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  

  Hari Kunzru
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• I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Up
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• I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

  

  Joseph Beuys
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• About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

  

  Clement Freud
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• I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Different
  • School
  • Age

• If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Different