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Hasan Minhaj Quotes
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Hasan Minhaj
American
Actor
Born:
Sep 23
,
1985
Comedy
Every
Me
People
Think
You
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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
Every
Think
Alcohol
Interview
Respectable
Statement
About
Touch
Does
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Which
Sober
Really
Means
Tweet
Donald Trump is not a 71-year-old white man. He is an Indian uncle. He wears suits that don't fit; he can't speak English properly. He works with his idiotic sons; he hates women but loves his daughter. He makes up words when he gets angry. He is an Indian uncle.
Hasan Minhaj
Angry
Man
Women
Words
Speak
Suits
Daughter
Uncle
White
Indian
Hates
Wears
Properly
He
Sons
Makes
Idiotic
His
Trump
Fit
Up
Donald
Donald Trump
Gets
Loves
English
Works
A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my personal experience.
Hasan Minhaj
You
Experience
People
Political
Nothing
Tell
Statistics
Caught
Lot
Debates
Up
Times
Get
Esoteric
Personal
Personal Experience
Thing
Numbers
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
Life
Best
You
Courage
Joke
South Africa
Real Life
Stage
Awareness
Think
AIDS
Books
Say
India
Follow
See
About
Like
Comedian
Comedians
Talking
Real
South
Contrived
HIV
Bravery
Oh
Just
Africa
Sanitation
Show
Lives
Things
Every time I watch CNN, it feels like you're assigning me homework. Is Trump a Russian spy? I don't know. You tell me - I'm watching the news. It feels like I'm watching CNN watch the news. Just take an hour, figure out what you want to say, then go on the air.
Hasan Minhaj
Time
News
Me
You
Homework
Every
Every Time
Air
Say
Out
Tell
Russian
Take
Feels
Hour
Like
Know
Go
Trump
Spy
Just
Want
Then
Figure
Watch
Watching
I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.
Hasan Minhaj
Book
Chapter
Add
Our
Dream
About
Brown
Feel
New
Like
Concept
Talk
America
American
American Dream
Want
Much
Means
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
Sad
Funny
Matter
Think
Sides
Able
Most
Comedians
Subject
Tap
Subject Matter
Same
Deep
Two
Coin
I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?
Hasan Minhaj
Kid
Indian
More
Part
Identity
Am
Exist
American
My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.
Hasan Minhaj
Think
Mediums
Tell
Find
Continue
Goal
Just
Stories
Need
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
Life
You
Events
Control
Wave
Our
Circumstances
Out
No Control
Myriad
Forces
Without
Making
Lot
Times
Personal
Then
Realizing
Choices
Even
Actively
Riding
My dad was the only son from his entire family to come to America, and I was his only son. We had come to the States to achieve security and success for our family. Rules were simple: No fun, no friends, no girls. Go to school, come home, and study.
Hasan Minhaj
Success
Home
Family
Son
Simple
School
Achieve
No Friends
Girl
Our
States
Rules
Security
No Fun
Entire
Only
Had
Study
Come
Go
Were
His
Friends
America
Fun
Dad
You can hear my opinion on various subjects, but telling my story is the most authentic thing I can do. There's nothing more powerful I can share with an audience.
Hasan Minhaj
You
Nothing
Telling
More
Various
Share
Powerful
Most
Opinion
Audience
Hear
Subjects
Authentic
Story
Thing
Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.
Hasan Minhaj
People
Few
Fighting
Over
Narrative
Caught
Up
Get
Esoteric
Personal
Few Things
Where
Rhetoric
Things
I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.
Hasan Minhaj
Wife
White
Indian
Wedding
Had
Huge
Friends
Did
Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which lets him do that.
Hasan Minhaj
Man
Care
Free
Free Speech
Everything
About
Head
Him
His
Trump
Amendment
Donald
Donald Trump
Which
Who
Tweets
Lets
Speech
I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.
Hasan Minhaj
Angry
Rather
Optimist
Than
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
Me
Man
Bathroom
States
India
Indian
Some
Had
Part
Soon
Like
Got
Am
Go
Up
American
Where
Places
Growing
Growing Up
Belong
As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.
Hasan Minhaj
Life
Sidelines
Comment
Get
Happening
Stand
The 'Homecoming King' show started off as a storytelling show that I had done; I worked with Greg Walloch to develop it and build it into something bigger.
Hasan Minhaj
King
Build
Something
Develop
Had
Off
Done
Bigger
Storytelling
Worked
Show
Homecoming
Started
The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities. If you have the cameras and reasonable capital, you can put your film in theatres next to 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' A great example of that was Kagiso Lediga's film 'Blitz Patrole.'
Hasan Minhaj
Great
You
Example
South Africa
Guardians
Say
Great Example
Booming
System
Possibilities
Rigid
Pretty
Scene
Put
Blitz
Traditional
Cameras
South
Lot
Africa
Galaxy
Hollywood
Capital
Next
Your
Reasonable
Film
U.S.A. Today is what happens when the coupon section takes over the newspaper.
Hasan Minhaj
Today
Section
Takes
Over
Happens
Newspaper
Every time a U.S.A. Today slides underneath my door, it's like they're saying, 'Hey, you're not that smart, right?'
Hasan Minhaj
Today
Saying
Time
You
Smart
Every
Every Time
Slides
Hey
Like
Underneath
Door
Right
I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.
Hasan Minhaj
Time
Home
Culture
Citizen
Country
Other
Back
Kid
Kids
India
Born
Like
Most
Identify
Identity
Another
America
American
Same
Same Time
Which
Here
The story that I'm telling in 'Homecoming King' about falling in love, these are things that happened to me - that actually happen every day in our backyards and in our communities.
Hasan Minhaj
Love
Day
Me
Every Day
King
Every
Our
Telling
About
Falling
Falling In Love
Happen
Happened
Story
Communities
Homecoming
Actually
Things
We shouldn't get lost in the bombastic tweets of Trump. He provides such great fodder every day. You don't want to lose sight of the other stuff that's going on that's even more important.
Hasan Minhaj
Day
Great
You
Every Day
Important
Lose
Lost
Every
Other
Sight
Fodder
More
He
Stuff
Provides
Trump
Get
Going
Want
Tweets
Even
Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.
Hasan Minhaj
Racism
People
Date
Contact
Quick
Very
Exposed
Actual
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