Aasif Mandvi Quotes
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.
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I love pain. Love pain.
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Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.
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49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.
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If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
