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I said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

Aasif Mandvi

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. … I hadn’t been to the mosque in like 10 years.
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Country Family Idea Islam World Year
I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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Allowing Beauty Exist Hijack Islam People Spiritual Think
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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America Culture Dort Fantasized Grew Moving
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
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
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Cast Father Law Pancake Pawn
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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Definitely Dynamic Grandchildren Interesting Married Parent Sister Thinking
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
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
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 know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.
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Better Gospel Know Mark Quran
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 said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.
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Bargain Ghodrati More Nothing Said
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
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
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 think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked… and comedians are always talking about politics.
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Approval Comedian Common Grop Politician Seeking Talking Thinking
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
For anybody who’s ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.
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End Like Logic Something Used Violence
In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
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America Essential Idea Ideas Individual Kind Own West
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
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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Bradford Danger Home Kid Population School Something Specially Today
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
I’m not really a food connoisseur.
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Connoisseur Food Really
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
I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.
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Bar Existed Inside More Mosque Muslim
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

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