To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance

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About Aziz Ansari

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Aziz Ismail Ansari ( ahn-SAR-ee; born February 23, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He played Tom Haverford on the NBC series Parks and Recreation (2009–2015) and created and starred in the Netflix series Master of None (2015–2021), for which he won several acting and writing awards, including...

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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.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance

While we may think we know what we want, we're often wrong.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—The Teaching of Buddha

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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

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Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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