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Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

Kumail Nanjiani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: pakistani
Birth: February 21, 1978

Topics

Life Me My Life Comedy Say Personal

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

You Go Will Places Never Follow

When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.

City Plants Serious Done Street

My generation grew up in the heyday of the '90s, with the Internet boom and the birth of overnight millionaires. But our politicians seem to be pushing personal agendas over the idea of making the world a better place for their children.

Children World Generation Better

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

John O. Brennan

Intelligence Better Want Possible

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

Saying Speak Think Better Help Want

There is no prospect of any of us being able to kick out any of the presidents of Europe; they operate in a sphere and a realm well away from and out of reach of and out of touch with the people.

People Reach Touch Europe Out Well

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Michael Cunningham

Great Kiss Book Serious Way First

I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it's on your own terms. There are so many people in the room, but it's a one-sided conversation. And you actually don't have to interact - unless you want to.

Good People Think You Conversation

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

Skin Side Bite Fingernails

I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular script, and they'll say, 'I want you to do this because I want it to look like Shawshank,' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm not that interested in doing that again.'

Love Reading Doing You Look Create

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Progress Walls Mind Human Spirit Our

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

Immigration Immigrants Belief Because

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