Aziz Ansari Quotes
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
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What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'
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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
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You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
