Aasif Mandvi Quotes

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

Aasif Mandvi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: March 5, 1966

Topics

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You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

John Barrymore

ShortYouNeverRealizePayMonth

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.

Melissa McCarthy

FootballMeWorldThinkFabricMost

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

Andre Leon Talley

FeelSituationComfortableAlways

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

John Otto

LearningThinkJazzWonderfulTool

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

John le Carre

WarPerceptionRealityKnowWhy

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.

Robert Gottlieb

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When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.

Jean-Michel Jarre

LoveTechnologyPowerManThinkYou

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

Amy Sherald

FlowerBirdTreeSchoolEndHouse

It's fun playing small venues.

Tracy Chapman

FunSmallPlayingVenues

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Tom Waits

LookingAmericaHoodAlwaysSeeBig

I want my people to work hard. But if they see me earning a lot more than they do, they would lose their sense of being owners of the factory, and what I say as factory manager wouldn't stick.

Lu Guanqiu

WorkPeopleMeWork HardLoseWant

What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.

Lisa Murkowski

PeopleMovingThinkYouDrunkLook

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