Maz Jobrani Quotes
My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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I got no hate in me.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.
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The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
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My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.
