Aziz Ansari Quotes

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• 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.

  

  Mahavira
  • Character
  • Want
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Myself
  • See
  • Celebrity

• 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.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• 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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Good
  • Control
  • Evil

• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Commitment

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Guitar
  • Piano
  • Bass

• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Best
  • Machines
  • Smoke

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Ball
  • Middle
  • Chances

• The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • World
  • Difficult
  • Finishing

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Political
  • Government

• I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.

  

  April Greiman
  • Balance
  • Order
  • Top

• But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in vain, has destined those parts to various uses, so that the various faculties of the mind seem to require different portions of the cerebrum and cerebellum for their production.

  

  Georg Prochaska
  • Different
  • Science
  • Production

• I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

  

  Jurgen Klopp
  • People
  • Learning
  • Talk

• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Interests

• With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

  

  Aziz Ansari
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