Maz Jobrani Quotes

I think it's time that we had a dad of Middle Eastern descent on TV. The time is ripe for the Middle Eastern 'Cosby Show.' Or, as I like to call it, 'The Mazby Show.'

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• I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

  

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• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

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• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  

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• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

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• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

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• I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

  

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• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

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• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

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• I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

  

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• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

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• I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

  

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• I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

  

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• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

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• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

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• I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

  

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• In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

  

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• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

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• A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

  

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• Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

  

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• I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

  

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• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

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• I think it's time that we had a dad of Middle Eastern descent on TV. The time is ripe for the Middle Eastern 'Cosby Show.' Or, as I like to call it, 'The Mazby Show.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
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  • Dad