Maz Jobrani Quotes
I am a standup comedian who has performed comedy in the Middle East in front of thousands of Muslims. And believe it or not, they laughed at plenty, especially when we poked fun at local culture. The Lebanese loved it when you would make fun of their driving and how, in Lebanon, a red light is just a suggestion to stop.Maz Jobrani
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
Irvine Welsh -
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
Viggo Mortensen -
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir -
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
Rachel McAdams -
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
J. Anthony Lukas
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas -
I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
Verne Troyer -
There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
Natalie Cole -
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
Iris Apfel
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
Harmony Korine -
I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
Narendra Modi -
I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
Fat Joe -
Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
Parker Posey
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
Kiki Smith -
I'm more of a people pleaser.
Dana Carvey -
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
Taylor Hackford -
But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
Keith David -
I am a standup comedian who has performed comedy in the Middle East in front of thousands of Muslims. And believe it or not, they laughed at plenty, especially when we poked fun at local culture. The Lebanese loved it when you would make fun of their driving and how, in Lebanon, a red light is just a suggestion to stop.
Maz Jobrani