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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

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Aasif Mandvi
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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Bombay
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I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.
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Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.
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In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
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America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.
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Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.
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The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.
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For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.
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I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.
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You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?
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I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.
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I was a fan of The Daily Show I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?
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Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.
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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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I don't want to tell people what they should think.
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You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, Gunga Din has come back.
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Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
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