Aziz Ansari Quotes
Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Imagination rules the world.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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A light heart lives long.
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Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.
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Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
