Aisha Tyler Quotes
I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.
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My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
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If I were the king of the forest, and I’m not, we would have more astronomy.
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I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.
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I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.
