A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
AISHA TYLERIf you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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