Aisha Tyler Quotes

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

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• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

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• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

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• I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

  

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• If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.

  

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

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• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

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• Smoke machines are the best!

  

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• I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

  

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• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

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• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  

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• If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

  

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• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

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• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

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• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

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• Well, I'm an independent person.

  

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• Being a celebrity is a business.

  

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• True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills.

  

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• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

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• Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

  

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• The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.

  

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• You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

  

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• I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

  

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