Maz Jobrani Quotes
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.
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I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
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In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
