Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters' and 'Knight Rider' and Hot Wheels commercials. When I got to college, having never set foot in America, I knew more American pop-culture references than my friends did.

Kumail Nanjiani

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My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

Jimmy Graham

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Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

Joe Nichols

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I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.

Robert Michael Morris

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Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

Spencer Tracy

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When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

Sloan Wilson

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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Tony Blair

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One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

Robert De Niro

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Melatonin levels start to rise around 9 or 10 at night in most people.

Michael W. Young

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My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

Louis MacNeice

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I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.

Claire Messud

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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

Polykarp Kusch

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Years ago, I was always serious, and now I chuckle and make jokes to create a calm environment because 'WrestleMania' can be a high-pressure atmosphere.

Shawn Michaels

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