Aasif Mandvi Quotes - Page 2

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• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Views, Where You Come, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Opportunity, Land, America

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• I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Moving, America, Culture

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Violence, Logic, Used

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kind, Used, Beats

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Today, Chickens, Dishes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Home, Long, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Years, Ideas, Islam

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Law, America, People

  "New role for 'Daily Show' reporter". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Talking, Comedian

  "New role for 'Daily Show' reporter". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• I don't want to tell people what they should think.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, People, Want

  "New role for 'Daily Show' reporter". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Quran, Mark, Knows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Mom, Smart, Needs

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Beach, Girlfriend, Usa

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Mean, Eye, White

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• Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Good Luck, Creative, Bigots

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Knowing, Air

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Fans, Impression, Shows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Reality, America, East

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.

  Aasif Mandvi

  People, Serious, Comedy

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Ideas, America, West

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's important to counter any form of bigotry, be it anti-Semitism, homophobia, racism, etc. These forms of hate share a common denominator of misinformation and intentional fear mongering.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Hate, Racism, Identity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In some ways for many years I was off the hook.When my niece was born after that their attention was focused on that and she did that. You know, that was in our family that's what she did. I went off and chased this dream and this career that very other few people in our, you know, in my family, but even culturally were doing.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dream, Niece, Years

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• I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Interesting

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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