Aziz Ansari Quotes
Your favorite kind of cake can't be birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
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'Poo-Tee-Weet?'
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I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Your favorite kind of cake can't be birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.
