Getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.
AASIF MANDVINorth Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state’s new voting restrictions are just fine.
More Aasif Mandvi Quotes
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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 know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.
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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 you’re brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
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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.
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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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Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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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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I’m Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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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?
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Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.
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Of course the law’s not racist.
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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 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.
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I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
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