Aisha Tyler Quotes

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

Aisha Tyler

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• Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Business
  • Change
  • Name

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.

  

  Cameron Richardson
  • Girl
  • Risks
  • Nose

• In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Want
  • You
  • Best

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Way
  • Written

• For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Like
  • Television
  • Really

• Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Feel
  • Members
  • Brand

• If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Law

• I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Weird
  • King
  • Lion

• The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Great
  • Think
  • Myself

• I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Important
  • Win

• I was with my king In the heavens When Lucifer fell Into the deepest hell. I carried the banner Before Alexander. I know the names of the stars From the North to the South.

  

  Taliesin
  • King

• Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Music
  • Family
  • History

• You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Alone

• For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Good
  • Remember
  • History

• For me, I see filmmaking as art.

  

  Emily Browning
  • Art

• I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

  

  George Benson
  • Right
  • Rejection

• As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Mistake

• I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

  

  John Burnham Schwartz
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Teacher

• I'll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?

  

  Penny Marshall
  • Business

• After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

  

  Aisha Tyler