Gabriel Iglesias Quotes
I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.
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If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
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I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.
