Aasif Mandvi Quotes
When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I know all the critics.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.
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When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
