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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.

Aasif Mandvi

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
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
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
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
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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Chechnya Country might Narnia Suburb
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
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
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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Asian Character Children Muslim People Role Written
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.
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Culture Experience Feel Like People Popular Really You
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
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
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
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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Daily Down Fan Figure Imagine Impression Show Watch
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
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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