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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.

Aasif Mandvi

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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Bar Existed Inside More Mosque Muslim
I was born in India – but never really lived there.
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Born India Live Really
I’m not really a food connoisseur.
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Connoisseur Food Really
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?
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Children Iconic Marker Successful Wife
I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked… and comedians are always talking about politics.
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Approval Comedian Common Grop Politician Seeking Talking Thinking
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
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Cast Father Law Pancake Pawn
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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Carolina Definitely Don Member North Restriction State Thinking Voting Yelton
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.
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Acting Comedy Conscious Done Stuff Theatre Thing
Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the “Daily Show”, she was like no – there is no – the only way you’ll learn this job is by doing this job.
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Daily First Job Learn No Samantha Bee She Show Started Way
For anybody who’s ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.
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End Like Logic Something Used Violence
I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.
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African American Coming Guy Television Thinking
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!
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America Chicago Country Exotic New York Outside People Thinking
Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.
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Chicken Dish Food National Reverse Today
I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
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People Tell Thinking Want
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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Believe Levels Prophet Muhammad
Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced
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Bradford Danger Home Kid Population School Something Specially Today

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