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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
Aasif Mandvi
Smile
Hope
Family
Satire
People
Will
Assumptions
Broad
Those
Out
Muslim
Muslims
Reconsider
Some
About
Uncles
Bias
Also
Audience
Encourage
Balm
Providing
Crack
America
Being
Experiencing
While
Realities
Expose
Using
I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.
Antony Beevor
Assumptions
Way
Bizarre
Find
Exciting
Stuff
Perhaps
Been
Often
Interesting
Perverse
Reassured
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
Callie Khouri
Love
You
Think
Assumptions
Everyone
Complex
Characters
Kinds
About
Like
Know
Qualities
Make
Redeeming
Where
Place
Them
Start
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.
Charles Francis Richter
Result
Seriously
Energy
Changed
Assumptions
Final
Though
Data
Calculating
Affects
Same
Might
Then
Body
Used
Even
It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
Christopher Meloni
Work
Good
You
People
Will
Job
Good People
Believe
Too
Assumptions
Easier
Out
Easy
Find
Constantly
See
Something
Put
Make
Stick
Makes
Ultimately
Often
Different
Break
Place
Capable
Mold
Your
Search
I guess I always had made some assumptions about what it would be like to work in a tech company, and some were right, and some were wrong. I had a lot of, looking back on it, now naive ideas about how companies build their brands, and a lot of those notions I ended up realizing were kind of wrong.
Daniel Lyons
Work
Made
Looking
Looking Back
Build
Assumptions
Guess
Back
Those
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Some
About
Had
Wrong
Naive
Like
Ideas
Always
How
Were
Lot
Up
Brands
Ended
Realizing
Notions
Companies
Company
Tech
Now
Right
People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.
David Beckham
People
Assume
Too
Assumptions
Wrong
Over
Most
Years
Intelligent
Just
Soccer
Players
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness
World
Negative
Reading
Whatever
Cynical
Believe
Assume
Assumptions
Our
Worst
Possibility
Rush
Mystery
Fairly
Still
Lot
Tastes
Romance
Want
Fantasy
Show
Actually
People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.
Drew Houston
You
Yourself
People
Few
Assumptions
Wave
Would
Magic
Magic Wand
Could
Instead
Make
Doing
Years
Very
Five
Few People
Going
Wand
Want
Themselves
Ask
Really
Now
Based
Actually
Basic
There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'
Erin Foster
Work
You
Rich
Assumptions
Our
Way
He
Clear
Always
Go
Were
Lot
Did
Want
Which
Us
Really
Certain
Should
Certain Way
Hard
Dad
Raised
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary Becker
Alone
Behavior
Analysis
Assumptions
Systematic
Intuitive
About
Only
Point
Implications
Still
Yield
Interesting
Many
Starting
Starting Point
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
Glenn Greenwald
Matters
Own
Difficult
Thinking
Assumptions
Say
Compliment
About
Give
Writer
Highest
He
Observations
Clear
Forced
Without
His
Questioning
Quick
Provoked
Often
Really
Internal
Agree
Wholeheartedly
Resolution
It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.
Graydon Carter
Daily
Values
Rare
Rat
Reflect
Assumptions
Tribulations
Rat Race
Casually
Take
Accept
Gospel
Break
Race
Moment
The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.'
Greg Gutfeld
News
People
Evil
Assumptions
Say
Run
Must
Totally
About
Someone
Hypocrites
Share
Stopped
Whine
Who
Tolerant
They Say
Fox
Fox News
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.
Greg Gutfeld
You
Think
Assumptions
Elsewhere
Eye
Find
Red
Because
Question
Common
Reason
Popular
Why
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
Society
Assumptions
Our
Our Choice
Framework
Ways
Those
Abandoning
Seek
Driven
Had
Supporting
Economy
Institutions
Looked
Policy
Dictated
Reform
Hitherto
Transcending
Either
Choice
Fundamental
Nigeria
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.
Jeremy Hunt
You
People
Conservative
Debate
Past
Assumptions
Spending
Say
Some
About
Something
Had
Partly
Because
Reduce
Governments
Arts
Want
Happened
In The Past
Public
Might
Certain
Appeared
Things
Tone
I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.
Jesmyn Ward
People
Black
Reading
Think
Assumptions
Others
Those
Would
Would-Be
About
Make
South
Interested
Poor
Certain
I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.
Jim McKay
Life
Work
You
Everyday Life
Cute
Too
Assumptions
Everyday
Our
Tripped
Something
Having
Having Fun
Fooled
Exciting
Toward
Stuff
Learn
Makes
Am
Up
Get
Trying
Manage
Fun
Things
Playing
Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.
Jim Webb
Law
White
Assumptions
Contrary
America
Hardly
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
John Lydon
Me
You
Human Being
Thinking
Assumptions
Approach
Way
Come
Doing
Bunch
Any
Human
Anybody
Being
Planet
Interests
Whole
Now
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
John Spratt
Welcome
People
Three
Big
Situation
Pay
Assumptions
Plenty
Would
Weapons
Postwar
Troops
Wrong
Soon
Equipment
Proved
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Oil
Us
Rebuilding
Two
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
Julian Baggini
Thought
Assumptions
Once
Habits
Lazy
Put
Spotlight
Hue
Up
Different
Shown
I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other than wanting to challenge some of the source material I was working from as well as some of the assumptions of epic fantasy.
Ken Liu
Grace
Challenge
Mind
Other
Assumptions
Some
Kings
Message
Well
Material
Source
Source Material
Than
Wanting
Epic
Fantasy
Working
Sequels
Specific
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
Kim Gordon
Music
People
Assumptions
More
Makes
Rock
Rock Music
Really
Certain
Enlightened
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
Lana Wachowski
You
Assumptions
Everyone
Once
Those
About
Noir
Like
Mess
Genre
Around
Expectations
Place
Really
Film
Things
Film Noir
Twist
Start
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