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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.

Aisha Tyler

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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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.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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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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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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