Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

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.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.