Aisha Tyler Quotes

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

Aisha Tyler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 18, 1970

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English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Jim Crace

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I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

Jerry Seinfeld

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The youngsters who live in housing projects are some of the most talented and nicest kids you'll find anywhere. But they're right on the cutting edge - they could go either way. You have to work with them, guide them, and mold them like a piece of clay.

Jesse White

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My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams.

Jenny Zhang

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No man's credit is as good as his money.

John Dewey

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Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

John Flavel

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When I look at the success of the Cisco Networking Academy program, which has reached more than 4.75 million people since 1997, I know it could have never achieved this scale without our partners. Together we provide the tools, equipment and training for our students and teachers.

John T. Chambers

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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

Amber Tamblyn

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I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Sting

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Tony Robbins

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A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Joseph Lancaster

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My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

Christopher Lee

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