Top 180 Aziz Ansari Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.”

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102. “I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.”

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103. “The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.”

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104. “I’ve always tried to maintain that I don’t have any advice to give. I’m a curious observer.”

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105. “With stand-up, it’s more interesting to hear about people’s failures than their successes.”

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106. “I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.”

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107. “There are no longer any predetermined life paths. Each of us is on our own.”

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108. “We have two selves: a real-world self and a phone self, and the nonsense our phone selves do can make our real-world selves look like idiots.”

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109. “Sheena Iyengar, a Columbia University professor who specializes in research on choice, put it to me another way: “People are not products,” she said bluntly. “But, essentially, when you say, ‘I want a guy that’s six foot tall and has blah, blah, blah characteristics,’ you’re treating a human being like one.”

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110. “The problem is that this search for the perfect person can generate a lot of stress. Younger generations face immense pressure to find the “perfect person” that simply didn’t exist in the past when “good enough” was good enough. When they’re successful, though, the payoff is incredible.”

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111. “London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.”

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112. “People who own iPhones are twice as likely to sext as people who use Androids.”

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113. “This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I’m constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I’ve been robbed twice.”

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114. “True love? This guy has a job and a decent mustache. Lock it down, girl.”

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115. “I have an amazing metabolism. I’m sure that’ll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don’t think I’ll ever get really fat.”

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116. “Your most casual encounter could lead to something bigger, so treat those interactions with that level of respect.”

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117. “Let’s have a moment of silence for all the chubby Asian dudes that are getting ‘Gangnam style!’ yelled at them by bros around the world.”

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118. “It’s the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.”

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119. “This is my favorite. I just love the idea of the guy opening up his phone, seeing the boobs, and thinking, “Ahhhh. Okay, you got this, Phil! Let’s nail this PowerPoint presentation.”

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120. “When I’ve really been in love with someone, it’s not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It’s more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever.”

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121. “Do I call? Do I text? Do I send a Facebook message? Do I send up a smoke signal? How does one do that? Will I set my rented house on fire? How embarrassed will I be when I have to tell the home’s owner, actor James Earl Jones, that I burned his house down trying to send a smoke signal?”

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122. “Carol, I can’t describe how you make me feel. Wait, no, I can – you make my mind release pleasure-inducing neurotransmitters and you’ve flooded my mind with dopamine. If the experience of snorting cocaine and getting so high out of my mind that I want to climb a telephone pole with my bare hands just to see if I can do it were a person, it would be you.”

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123. “Comedians don’t have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.”

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124. “A few decades ago, if I wanted to research vanilla ice cream, what would I have even done? Cold-approach chubby guys and then slowly steer the convo toward ice cream to get their take? No, thanks. Nowadays the Internet is my chubby friend. It is the whole world’s chubby friend.”

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125. “On a side note, is there any place on earth that sounds like it has a more chill vibe than Hawaiian Brian’s? Or for that matter, is there a chiller name than “Hawaiian Brian”? “Damnit! Hawaiian Brian just stole my debit card and liquidated all my bank accounts!” I can’t ever see someone having to utter that sentence.”

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126. “No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them.”

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127. “If you are in a big city or on an online dating site, you are flooded with options. Seeing all these options, like the people in the job example, are we now comparing our potential partners not to other potential partners but rather to an idealized person whom no one could measure up to?”

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128. “I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the “nerd” moniker. But I don’t get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a “racist” comedian.”

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129. “Often, when you’re out in the single world meeting people, you meet someone you like, get their number, and put it right in your phone, transforming them into an ‘option’ that lives in your device. Sometimes you and that option engage in some phone-based interaction and you meet up in person. But sometimes that exchange never happens. That potentially cool, exciting person dies there, buried in your phone.”

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130. “At certain times, though, this “I need the best” mentality can be debilitating.”

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131. “Let’s say you are a handsome, charming stud who really made a great first impression. If your first text is “Hey we shud hang out sumtimez,” you may just destroy any goodwill you have built up.”

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132. “A century ago people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after they decided neither party seemed like a murderer, the couple would get married and have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-two. Today people spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate.”

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133. “After the rings, the priest should just say, “Enjoy it, bing-bongs. Due to our brain’s tendency toward hedonic adaptation, you won’t feel quite this giddy in a few years. All right, where’s the pigs in a blanket? I’m outta here.”

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134. “While we may think we know what we want, we’re often wrong.”

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135. “I am a sexually confident woman who made a video for someone she cared about. If someone I knew saw the images and judged me negatively for making them, I feel confident that the problem is with them, not with me... So when I sext with my boyfriend, the main goal is to get us off. But it’s also my little way of reassuring myself that I decide what to do with my body, and I get to decide which risky behaviors are worth taking.”

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136. “Making sure the person shared your interest in sushi and Wes Anderson movies and made you get a boner anytime you touched her hair would seem far too picky.”

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137. “Waiting for true love was a luxury that many, especially women, could not afford.”

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138. “Among the older lovers, brain regions associated with anxiety were no longer active; instead, there was activity in the areas associated with calmness.”1 Neurologically it’s similar to the kind of love you feel for an old friend or a family member.”

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139. “When you look at your phone and see a text from a potential partner, you don’t always see another person – you often see a little bubble with text in it. And it’s easy to forget that this bubble is actually a person.”

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140. “The key, Dinesh said, is to have friends who hang out in different groups in different places, and to mix up the nights so that you’re spending some time with all of them. Whether it’s in church, with volunteer groups, at office parties, or on a sports field, it’s always a place where people meet organically.”

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141. “One reason it’s so hard to imagine marrying the people we grew up with is that these days we marry much later than people in previous generations.”

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142. “I asked if this was maybe a very, very lame, roundabout dinner-date invitation – to ask her to come over for cabbage. “No, he was really asking me how to cook cabbage,” she moaned. The same guy e-mailed her a few days later with this gem, and again, this is not a joke: “I recently got my futon wet and put it outside to dry, but it got caught in the rain, so now it’s wet again.”

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143. “Scheduling chatter is merely one of the many forms of useless banter that makes dating in the digital age so frustrating, especially for women over twenty-five, since they have less patience for constant text exchanges.”

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144. “Finding someone today is probably more complicated and stressful than it was for previous generations – but you’re also more likely to end up with someone you are really excited about.”

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145. “If you live a responsible life, you’ll run into responsible people.”

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146. “There’s something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we’ll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it.”

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147. “If you were in a bar, would you ever go up to a guy or girl and repeat the word “hey” without getting a response? Would you ever go up to a woman you met two minutes ago and beg her to show you one of your boobs? And do you really want to bone someone who responds to this?”

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148. “But our research also convinced me that too many people spend way too much time doing the online part of online dating, not the dating part. After.”

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149. “Now most young people spend their twenties and thirties in another stage of life, where they go to university, start a career, and experience being an adult outside of their parents’ home before marriage.”

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150. “Hi, I’m Jane. I’m twenty-four and I have a similar experience with Tinder where I was, like, at a party with friends and they were like, “This is the funnest game ever. Let’s play this.” And I downloaded it. And then, like, started seeing way too many people I knew. So I deleted it.”

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