Hari Kondabolu Quotes

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• Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Swimming, America, Talking

  "Hari Kondabolu on Why You Can't Be 'Obsessed With Race' in America" by Jamilah King, www.colorlines.com. February 6, 2014.

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• It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience only having one type of emotion and one type of reaction. If they have anything other than laughter, it's a failure. That's an absurd thing for a human to try to seek. The main thing to realize is that whatever I say, it's my truth and I believe in it, and if I don't get a laugh off that, then it's not working.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Laughter, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Art, Laughter, Confused

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• I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Native American, Funny Thanksgiving, Soy

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• When you're a person of color in white America, you know white people. You know why you know white people? Because you can't enjoy any kind of entertainment if you are not able to humanize white people. If you watch a film and are like, "Oh, this has white people in it? Then I'm not interested," then you can't enjoy anything in America!

  Hari Kondabolu

  People, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Years, People, Mustache

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Issues, People, Comic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Stupid, Long, Said

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do whoever you want. In fact, I'll buy you the paint. Whatever you want. Just give us 50 years. 50 years. That's it.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Art, Giving, Paint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't look like a lot of fun. I just don't.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fun, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't tie my shoes right. I tie them the way you would tie a gift, like a bow.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Ties, Shoes, Bows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My brother had a mustache, and when my brother had a mustache, it was cool. When I had a mustache, everyone just assumed I'm an immigrant and I don't speak English, which is fascinating. It was a fascinating thing to discover how I looked versus my brother with a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Brother, Speak English, Mustache

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We've never had a female President in this country, which I find stunning

  Hari Kondabolu

  Country, President, Female

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• I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always have a bit of a look, a bit of a frown.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Looks, Bits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always looked older.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep thinking, "If they get drunk, they would commit a hate crime." Now that is an extreme position to take, but it's just a feeling I get. New Zealand people, I don't see that.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Frozen

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• It's always fun when you see different comics at different weights or with different hair.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fun, Hair, Weight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a phase where I had a mustache. There was several times where I had a mustache. I had a mustache in high school because South Asian men can potentially have a great deal of facial hair. So I had a mustache at 14, and then I grew a proper mustache a few years ago. I just thought it would be fun to just have a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fun, School, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Girl, School, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't drink before shows.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Drink, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd love for someone to ask me about comedic technique and choices.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Choices, Technique, Comedic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never learned how to tie my shoes, and I was mocked for that. I still don't know how to.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Shoes, Ties, Stills

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I used to wash my hair with a two-for-one shampoo and conditioner, I would wash it twice, which is completely unnecessary, because that's the point - it's one bottle. Because I used to have the shampoo, that's one, conditioner, one. I did the same thing, even though it was two-in-one. I was corrected in my mid-20s by my girlfriend at the time, who laughed at me and said how stupid that was.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Girlfriend, Stupid, Hair

  Source: www.avclub.com

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