Gabriel Iglesias Quotes
Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.
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We shred every day.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
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During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.
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Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
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Usually, the first three months post acquisition are up and down. The acquirer and the acquiree are trying to figure out how to interact. The founders of the acquiree are usually tired from the deal process and adjusting to their new reality.
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What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.
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Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.
