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Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Aasif Mandvi

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.
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Bus Chased English Getting Home Kid Praying Stop
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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Artist Control Impact Over Thinking Work
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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Creating Generation Idea Ideas Marriage Parent Romantic Love
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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Court Doe Fraud Past Racism Supreme Voter
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
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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Analyze Away Going Try Trying Worry
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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Commenting Culture Great Guy Kids White
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
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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Bigot Chechen Committee Creative Good Luck
I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
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People Tell Thinking Want
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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African American Coming Guy Television Thinking
Of course the law’s not racist.
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Course Law Racist Result
Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It’s a communal culture where you do what’s best for the community – you procreate.
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Community Culture Essential Indian
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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Colonization Country Interesting Relationship Subcontinent Two Year
If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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Acknowledge Bad Differences Stereotype Reducing Someone

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