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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• 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

• Nowadays, there is a new trend that has started. Up to assembly election results, they were targeting Modi. Now it is very difficult for them to target Modi. So now you must have read so many articles, so many discussions on the TV: 'there's something wrong with the people of Gujarat'. This has the sic started!

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Up

• 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

• I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Alone
  • Personality

• 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

• One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • Fun
  • Genre
  • Cliches

• Fashion is capitalism's favourite child.

  

  Werner Sombart
  • Fashion
  • Child
  • Capitalism

• I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

  

  John Hurt

• Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Live
  • Society
  • Culture

• 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