Aasif Mandvi Quotes
When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying slips easily into the glove of the act itself. It is in character, ego-syntonic. It, the death, fits the person. It is a death that one might choose if it were realistically possible for one to choose one's own death.
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.
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I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
