Aisha Tyler Quotes
Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
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Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
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My job is to make life better for people, and you cannot make life better if you are in a helicopter. You can't make life better for them if you can't touch them.
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I'm not really a meditator. I'm, like, a napper.
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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.
