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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. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.Aisha Tyler
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Success is not the absence of failure it's the persistence through failure.Aisha Tyler
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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.Aisha Tyler
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People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.Aisha Tyler
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For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.Aisha Tyler
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The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.Aisha Tyler
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I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.Aisha Tyler
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Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'Aisha Tyler
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I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.Aisha Tyler
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One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.Aisha Tyler
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Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.Aisha Tyler
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For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.Aisha Tyler
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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.Aisha Tyler
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Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.Aisha Tyler
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Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.Aisha Tyler
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I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.Aisha Tyler
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I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.Aisha Tyler
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If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy that fit that mold.Aisha Tyler
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I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.Aisha Tyler
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Bravery is the engine of change.Aisha Tyler
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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.Aisha Tyler
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I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.Aisha Tyler
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My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.Aisha Tyler
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I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.Aisha Tyler
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I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.Aisha Tyler