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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance.
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Everything in life influences my music.
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I have to admit, I underestimated Billie Jean and overestimated myself.
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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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.
