Kal Penn Quotes

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• The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
• I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible.…
• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
• I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
• I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
• In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
• My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
• The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?
• To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.
• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C.…
• I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was…
• I've worked on a lot of fun movies, but my favorite job was having a boss who gave the order to take out bin Laden…
• I started volunteering for Barack Obama in 2007. But nothing compares to what I saw behind the scenes at the White House, when I had…
• One of the most special days was a Saturday in 2010. The Senate repealed 'don't ask, don't tell,' so anyone can serve the country they…
• I was in a small office on the second floor of the West Wing with eight other staffers. We'd worked our hearts out and cared…
• Five minutes later, President Obama walked in, sleeves rolled up. He said to us, 'This is not over. We're gonna keep fighting. I'm gonna keep…
• A few months later, President Obama fought to keep taxes from going up on middle-class families. Our Republican friends said, Sure you can do that.…
• Now, President Obama paid off his own student loans not too long ago. He remembers what it is like. He said making it easier to…
• I volunteered in Iowa in 2007 because, like you, I had friends serving in Iraq, friends who were looking for jobs, others who couldn't go…
• I'm volunteering again now because my friend Matt got a job at a Detroit car company that still exists, and Lauren can get the prescription…

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