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"I don't want to tell people what they should think."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Thinking #People #Want
"I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Usa #Beach #Hanging Out
"If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Prophet #You Choose #Prophet Muhammad
"We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Pancakes #Law #In-laws
"I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?"
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Mean #People #Eye
"In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Get Away #Britain #Facts
"In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!"
--- Aasif Mandvi
#People #Thinking #Indian Food
"If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Differences #Acknowledge #Stereotype
"Of course the law's not racist."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Racist #Courses #Law
"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
#Theater #Done #Instinct
"I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Way #Jewish Friends #Bigs
"It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?"
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Markers #Capacity #Wife
"I was born in India - but never really lived there."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Born #India
"For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Ends #Used #Violence
"When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Hollywood #Opportunity #Knows
"It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Mean #Grew Up #Chapel
"In some ways for many years I was off the hook.When my niece was born after that their attention was focused on that and she did that. You know, that was in our family that's what she did. I went off and chased this dream and this career that very other few people in our, you know, in my family, but even culturally were doing."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#People #Hook #Our Family
"The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?"
--- Aasif Mandvi
#I Can #Smart #Know How
"Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Culture #Indian #Indian Culture
"England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Interesting #Indian #Colonization
"I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Quran #Mark #Knows
"For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Thinking #Mean #Reason
"I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Fans #Daily Show #Impression
"America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#People #Ideals #Asks
"Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#Chechnya #Might #Narnia
"My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up."
--- Aasif Mandvi
#People #Thinking #Bradford

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