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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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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 complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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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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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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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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I think we've all done things that are a detriment to ourselves, and we've all made good choices that have brought good things for us.
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I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.
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You don't need to hire a dog therapist, you just need to wake up at 7 am and open the fucking door!
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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.
