Hasan Minhaj Quotes

A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my personal experience.

Hasan Minhaj

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• Personal Experience

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• Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Politics

• You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • You
  • Taught
  • Brainy

• Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Dream
  • Positive
  • Dreams

• 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

  

  J Mascis
  • Bones
  • Some
  • Kick

• The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Real
  • Wine
  • Cooking

• My focus is on my constituents.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Focus
  • Constituents

• I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Eye

• I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Eyes

• I felt all kinds of pressure on myself...I didn't want to disappoint anybody. But that is nothing that compares to someone dealing with a health issue, so my shit is no big deal.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Health

• Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Life

• I'm not perfect at all.

  

  Liv Tyler
  • Perfect

• To play three games in seven days is not simple, above all for our wings-backs.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Simple

• I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Nature
  • Night
  • Friend

• I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Country
  • Power
  • Political

• A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

  

  David Talbot
  • Political

• Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • People
  • Strong

• The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Interesting

• But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have an anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Men
  • Alive
  • Compare

• Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

  

  David Crane
  • Science
  • Math

• There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities.

  

  Amma Asante
  • Politics
  • Difference
  • Race

• The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don't want politicians who've gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Beginning

• A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my personal experience.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Political debates
  • Esoteric statistics
  • Personal Experience