Aisha Tyler Quotes
I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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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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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too... expected.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.
