Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

I just recently crossed over into Europe. They're showing my special Hot and Fluffy in Europe and selling the DVD there too. And they're doing the same thing in Australia and Canada. And I think the biggest part was I did the special in a predominantly Latino area, but I kept the show mainstream and across the board.

Gabriel Iglesias

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• The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Job
  • Sleep

• For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Color
  • Animals

• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Way
  • Matter

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Interesting
  • Company

• I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Work
  • Mad
  • Turn

• We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Measure
  • Our
  • Sum

• My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Anything

• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Deep

• She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!Vain as the leaf upon the stream,And fickle as a changeful dream;Fantastic as a woman's mood,And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.Thou many-headed monster thing,Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dream
  • Wish
  • King

• I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • School
  • Study

• I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make total sense for me, but the metal version of that did. So I made a small list with Metal Blade, Prosthetic and couple of other labels, and Relapse was one of them.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Couple

• There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • People
  • Society

• Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Powerful

• A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Men
  • Black
  • Voting

• Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

  

  Tertullian
  • God
  • Truth
  • Questions

• I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Deng Xiaoping
  • Prison
  • Mao

• I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Life
  • Small

• I just recently crossed over into Europe. They're showing my special Hot and Fluffy in Europe and selling the DVD there too. And they're doing the same thing in Australia and Canada. And I think the biggest part was I did the special in a predominantly Latino area, but I kept the show mainstream and across the board.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias