Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
AISHA TYLERAll these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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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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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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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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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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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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If 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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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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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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