Aziz Ansari Quotes
Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
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As part of our research, we monitor just about every announced deal globally that is in excess of a billion dollars.
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At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
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Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.
