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.
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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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