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.Aasif Mandvi
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
Gary Clark Jr. -
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.'
Tavis Smiley -
Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
Salma Hayek -
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
Earl Wilson -
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.
Jack Kemp
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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.
Oliver Tambo -
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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
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.
Laini Taylor -
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
Gaby Hoffmann -
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.
Dale Archer -
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
Mackenzie Astin -
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.
Dan Quayle -
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
Walid Jumblatt -
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
Edmund Husserl
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
Claire Tomalin -
I think it's real easy to look at what's out there and get discouraged. I was never the best-looking guy, I was never the Tom Cruise-looking guy. I think the biggest thing I can say is, 'Don't compare yourself.'
Craig Sheffer -
In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
Walt Mossberg -
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
Faye Wattleton -
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.
Aasif Mandvi