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 will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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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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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.
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I believe in doing what I am best at.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.
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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.
