Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

Kumail Nanjiani

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PeopleMeNameWeirdYouKnow

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

Joel Edgerton

ResponsibilityBetterOthersUsThan

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Anna Quindlen

GoodWomenOpinionYouNeedValued

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

LiveGreatWorldHonorWayPretend

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

Tony Dungy

ChildhoodFunStoryRememberReal

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Ronan Farrow

FamilyFatherSonChildrenSister

Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

RuPaul

PowerBelieveUniverseYouHype

For some of my young female readers, it will be the first time they will have seen a Punjabi author be successful in the West. Because I'm dealing with topics that aren't always easily discussed, I know they will look up to me, because I would have done the same. So I just want to make sure I do right by them, wherever this takes me.

Rupi Kaur

TimeMeLookKnowDoneYoung

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Mary McDonnell

WorkLoveComplexityI Love

I adore dark chocolate.

Diane von Furstenberg

ChocolateDarkAdore

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Douglas Southall Freeman

LifeCharacterTruthManWorthHigh

We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

Allen West

KindnessCompassionManGenerosity

I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94.

Wilson Cruz

ChristmasOutI CameCameDad

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