Gabriel Iglesias Quotes
I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
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If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.
