Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  

  Quintilian
  • World
  • God
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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.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Money
  • Man
  • Care

• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
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• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
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  • Trying

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
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• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Musician
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  • Untraine

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
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• To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
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• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
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• A nation never falls but by suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Suicide

• I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

  

  Christopher Heyerdahl
  • Player
  • Hockey

• Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Job
  • Together
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• Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.

  

  Jon Polito
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• I fell into conversation with Douglas. His is a split personality. À deux he is delightful; clever, funny, observant, drily cynical. But get him anywhere near 'display mode', particularly if there are officials around, and he might as well have a corncob up his arse. Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded.

  

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• I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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