Aasif Mandvi Quotes

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• I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  War, Hate, Believe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Differences, Stereotype, Reducing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Bars, Mosques, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Community, Culture, Indian Culture

  Source: www.wbur.org

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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

  Past, Racism, Doe

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Believe, Levels, Prophet Muhammad

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Doctors, Roles, Brown

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2010.

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• Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - 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 Mandvi

  School, Kids, Home

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Mom, Peanut Butter, Sandwiches

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Character, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kids, White, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Years, Two, Interesting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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!

  Aasif Mandvi

  New York, Thinking, America

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Acting, Done, Stuff

  "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Jobs, Artist, Mirrors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Moving, America, Culture

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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

  Aasif Mandvi

  Ideas, America, Wanted

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  People, Culture, Like You

  "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.

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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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Worry, Going Away, Trying

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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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Interesting

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  Aasif Mandvi

  India, Born

  "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.

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• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

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  Connoisseur

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Holiday, Pork, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Views, Where You Come, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Artist, Thinking, Impact

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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