Aziz Ansari Quotes
Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn.
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Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.
