I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
AISHA TYLERSometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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