Top 17 Minhaj Quotes
#1. 'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.
Hasan Minhaj
#2. Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.
Dawn French
#3. I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.
Hasan Minhaj
#4. The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
Thomas Sowell
#5. Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.
Jethro Tull
#6. I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are chocolate chip cookies, I will devour them.
Hasan Minhaj
#7. To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
Denis Diderot
#8. If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic - I think it would be Tina Fey for president.
Hasan Minhaj
#9. I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there.
Hasan Minhaj
#10. I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.
Hasan Minhaj
#11. The question is not "Can this product be built?" In the modern economy, almost any product that can be imagined can be built. The more pertinent questions are "Should this product be built?" and "Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?" To
Eric Ries
#12. The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.
Hasan Minhaj
#13. J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was a huge influence on the visuals for 'Homecoming King.'
Hasan Minhaj
#14. 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
#15. It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#16. Aditi is a comedy superstar over in India. She's only one of three female English-speaking comedians in India.
Hasan Minhaj
#17. There's all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy's one of those few things where you can discuss those things.
Hasan Minhaj