"At first, it was really weird after being a touring stand-up comedian that wears just jeans and a shirt. But now, it's almost like when you go from Clark Kent to Superman: "All right, I've got to go put on a suit and interview Justin Trudeau." It feels like it's part of the process. Oddly enough, I've been in enough places - they sometimes send you to places that are a bit scary - that I know how to run in a suit. Like, run fast."

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Source : Source: www.mtv.com

Hasan Minhaj

#Running Quotes #Scary Quotes #Comedian Quotes

“Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.”
“Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.”
“Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.”

Source : "A Watchful State" by Jeffrey Rosen, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2001.
“Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon”
“Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.”
“I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.”
“We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.”
“I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

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