The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you’re reaching people.
AASIF MANDVII said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.
More Aasif Mandvi Quotes
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Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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When I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world – your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?
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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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Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
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Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
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If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.
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I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.
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England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
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I said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.
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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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From my parent’s generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It’s about creating family. It’s about creating offspring.
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