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Hari Kondabolu Quotes

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 21, 1982

Topics

Love Myself Will Way First Always

Part of my job is to advocate on my constituents' behalf to federal agencies who aren't always responsive.

Steven Horsford

Job Always Advocate Responsive Who

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

You Train Kid Guy Toy Store

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

Tracy Chevalier

Know Next Happen Wanting Happens

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

Work Men King Meeting Achieve Two

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish.

Change Memories Me Writing Think

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

Faith War World Capitalism End Need

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

Positive Start Stand Up Stand You

Many people send me letters in England saying, 'I want to be a war photographer,' and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There's wars going on out there; you don't have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile.

Live Community War People Me World

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

Love Know Movies Hard Real Used

I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.

Mouth Her Whispering Kissing

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Failure Past Empathy Think Political

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Clifford Geertz

People Mind Reading Two People Him

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