Maz Jobrani Quotes
The first acting part I ever got was a guest spot on 'Chicago Hope' playing a security guard. I thought, 'Oh, this is going to be cool.' But a little bit later, I got a vague part on this short-lived show called 'Marshall Law' with Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. It was a poor man's 'Rush Hour.'
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
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Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.
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I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year, I taught in Indiana at a couple schools, and then I moved over to Chicago.
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When you look at organised religion of whatever sort - whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism - wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.
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I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.
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The first acting part I ever got was a guest spot on 'Chicago Hope' playing a security guard. I thought, 'Oh, this is going to be cool.' But a little bit later, I got a vague part on this short-lived show called 'Marshall Law' with Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. It was a poor man's 'Rush Hour.'
