Maz Jobrani Quotes

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.

Maz Jobrani

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• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Often
  • Wizard

• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
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• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
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• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Process
  • Self
  • Meaning

• Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wife

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Best
  • Religion
  • Toleration

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Done
  • Goals

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Country
  • Power
  • History

• Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • World
  • Culture

• Can’t help it, but I love it Stand here, sing to you Brings back so many memories Many things we used to do ‘Till I see you here again Take care, good luck to you

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Good
  • Help
  • Memories

• I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Advantage
  • Dreamed

• If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Film

• One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Freedom
  • Comedy