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Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Democracy
#Foundation
#Free
#Open
#White
I was good at speech and debate and academics. I should've stayed in my lane, but I kept trying out for the basketball team. I thought I would make the N.B.A.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Debate
#Good
#Speech
#Team
#Trying
To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Awareness
#Best
#Courage
#Life
#Real
I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'
- Hasan Minhaj
#Best
#Cool
#Courage
#Say
#Unfair
I think there are people from every side who are allies for justice and good.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Every
#Good
#Justice
#People
#Side
A lot of times in life, it's personal choices that you're making, actively, and then there's a myriad of forces and circumstances that are out of our control. And without even realizing it, you're riding a wave of events that you have no control of.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Choices
#Circumstances
#Control
#Life
As a single guy, the baseline of what I needed was so low. I just needed an air mattress, food, and rent money.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Air
#Food
#Mattress
#Money
#Rent
The day-to-day microaggressions that we all face, yeah, you have to let some stuff slide, or you go, 'I gotta keep moving; there's bigger fish to fry.' It's something that I still deal with. But I've tried to have the audacity of equality and to follow my heart in those moments where I feel like something is wrong.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Equality
#Face
#Fish
#Heart
#Keep Moving
If it's just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that's great. That's fine. But like a sandcastle on the beach, it gets washed away at night. It's so much more powerful if we can all share our narratives and doorstep moments and make us feel a little less alone. I'm just trying to use social media and new media as a way to capture that.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Alone
#Great
#Me
#Night
#Social Media
I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Angry
#Optimist
#Rather
#Than
One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists, and I consider myself to be an optimist.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Big
#Feel
#Immigrant
#Myself
#Parents
Everybody's past and history informs them.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Everybody
#History
#Informs
#Past
#Them
I feel like every conversation with my father is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie; 90 minutes of build-up to no payoff.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Conversation
#Every
#Father
#Feel
#Night
'Vice News' is cool because they'll just send your local barista to go talk to the head of ISIS.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Cool
#Go
#Head
#News
#Talk
When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Culture
#Grow
#Minority
#Trying
#Up
Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'
- Hasan Minhaj
#American
#Bathroom
#I Am
#Man
#Me
Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet - completely sober.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Alcohol
#Every
#Interview
#Sober
#Touch
I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are chocolate chip cookies, I will devour them.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Chip
#Cookies
#Mean
#Seriously
#Will
I love air conditioning and Starbucks.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Air Conditioning
#Air
#Love
#Starbucks
When you immerse yourself in a community, you tend to rise in that community.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Community
#Immerse
#Rise
#Tend
#Yourself
Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Being
#Crown
#See
#Sick
#Take
I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Friends
#Indian
#Wedding
#White
#Wife
Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.
- Hasan Minhaj
#Deep
#Funny
#Matter
#Sad
#Two
My dad's from that generation like a lot of immigrants where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax: like you're going to endure some racism, and if it doesn't cost you your life, well hey, you lucked out. Pay it; there you go, Uncle Sam. I was born here, so I actually had the audacity of equality.
- Hasan Minhaj
#American Dream
#Dad
#Equality
#Life
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