Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

Jim Gaffigan

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• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Father
  • College
  • Challenge

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Boy

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • World
  • Energy
  • Market

• The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • Different
  • Man

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Energy
  • Write

• God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • God
  • Father

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Family
  • Energy
  • Week

• I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Try

• Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Myself

• My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Father
  • Mom

• My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Children
  • Family
  • Money

• Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Father
  • Husband
  • Hours

• I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Career
  • Political

• I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • She

• I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • People
  • Father

• I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Father
  • Energy
  • Crap