If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

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If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

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The great joy of doing ‘The Daily Show’ for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I’m playing the brown guy, and sometimes I’m not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.

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I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
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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.

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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.
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I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It’s already happening, and it’s hot!

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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It’s already happening, and it’s hot!
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People lament that there’s no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don’t want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don’t get it both ways.

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People lament that there’s no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don’t want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don’t get it both ways.
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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.

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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.
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I don’t want to tell people what they should think.

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I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
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North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state’s new voting restrictions are just fine.

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North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state’s new voting restrictions are just fine.
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I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

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I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.
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You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, “Gunga Din” has come back.

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You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, “Gunga Din” has come back.
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It’s an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

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It’s an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
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I said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

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I said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.
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If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

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