Gabriel Iglesias Quotes
By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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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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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.
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Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
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My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
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By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.
