Aziz Ansari Quotes
With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
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Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.
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The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
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With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
