Faran Tahir quotes

“Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people dont know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.”
-- Faran Tahir

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“We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.”
-- Faran Tahir

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.”
-- Faran Tahir

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“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”

“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“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.”

Source : "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.

“The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.”

“More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.”

“It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.”

“It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.”