Aziz Ansari Quotes
Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
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I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on
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In one war, there are a thousand wars within that war--each one private, singular, inaccessible, a fragment, a piece of a larger whole, parallel yet forever separate. And all we do in life is struggle with our impoverished efforts to put our war into words. I don't believe most of us ever succeed in our translations. It's an art most of us never conquer. That's why we argue with one another. We're like countries--each of us clinging to our separate histories. We're fighting one another about our translations, about what really happened. Which is another kind of war.
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When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.
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The Turing Test tried to make a distinction between humans and machines. But these days Shadow programs like Edward and Laura can be programmed to say 'I love you' or imitate other emotions. If a machine wanted to act like a human, then it had to deny the truth. Lying, not love, is the fundamental indication of humanity.
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Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
