“I am a hardcore foodie, which means I love to eat. I was also born wit...” — Maysoon Zayid Quote

“I am a hardcore foodie, which means I love to eat. I was also born with cerebral palsy, which means I shake all the time - so cooking is not my thing, as I am banned from being around knives and fire. Those who cannot cook, watch, and I am obsessed with cooking shows.”

“Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.”

“Palestine-Israel is such a ludicrous issue.”

“We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.”

“I think we need a Muslim 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette.' I think that's what would be the great equalizer, and that would change everything.”

“If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.”

“Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don't need them.”

“To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.”

“I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.”

“People tell me ridiculous things and then say they're joking. Like, at the Dubai immigration, the officer told me that I've been banned from Dubai. I almost started crying which is when he said that he was joking!”

“I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, 'Ah, why?' Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, 'This feels good!'”

“If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however brilliant, rather hard to travel.”