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

Aasif Mandvi

#Kids Quotes #White Quotes #Guy Quotes

“If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you don't bring in values and religion, you'll be asking superficial questions. What is life all about? What is our relationship to God? These are the important questions. What is our obligation to one another and community? If we don't ask those questions, the residual questions that we're asking aren't as interesting.”
“I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.”
“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.”
“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
“I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.”
“Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.”

Source : "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.
“Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.”
“I was a huge Internet junkie.”

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