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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

Aasif Mandvi

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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Comfortable Every Feel Home Long People Week
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
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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Identity Lot Searching Time Voice World
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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Big Friend Holiday Jewish Muslim Off Pork Way
Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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Election Statistically Voter Voter Fraud Zero
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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America Complete Idea Unrealistic Wanted
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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Come Fact Matter Views Where You
I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.
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Better Gospel Know Mark Quran
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.
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America Decide Family Land Like Opportunity Seem Sort
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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Beach Day Enjoy Girlfriend Hanging Spent
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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Chechnya Country might Narnia Suburb
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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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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Anyone Bashing Beat General Kind Subcontinent Used
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
An artist’s job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It’s not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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Answer Artist Face Front Hold Job Mirror Simply
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad
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