Maz Jobrani Quotes

I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.

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• I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

  

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• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

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• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

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• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

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• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

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• The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.

  

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• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

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• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

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• I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

  

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• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

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• It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'

  

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• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

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• I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

  

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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

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• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  

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• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  

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• I've always wanted to treat people the way I want to be treated.

  

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• I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.

  

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• We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

  

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• I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.

  

  Maz Jobrani
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