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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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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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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I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.
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It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.
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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.
