Aasif Mandvi Quotes
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
