Mindy Kaling Quotes

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?

Mindy Kaling

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• I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Everything

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Smile
  • Look

• Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Care

• I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Chance
  • Motivated

• I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Heart
  • Red
  • Chicago

• If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Country
  • Power
  • History

• Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

  

  Sam Weller
  • House
  • Small
  • California

• Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Work
  • Past
  • Trade

• Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.

  

  Logic
  • True
  • Dog
  • Cat

• Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Flower

• When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Game
  • Confidence
  • Improvement

• I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?

  

  Anne Michaels
  • Why
  • Reality

• Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Life

• Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

  

  Alan Siegel

• I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Basketball

• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Living
  • Restaurant

• I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Find

• So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Time
  • Done
  • Comedy

• I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Comedy
  • Female
  • Badass