Jim Gaffigan Quotes

There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

Jim Gaffigan

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Black
  • Couple

• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Black

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Love
  • Black
  • Stop

• When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

  

  Iman
  • Black
  • Down
  • Modeling

• My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Father

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Black-and-white

• There's not too many rich black people in this world.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • First

• There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

  

  Phil Niekro
  • Thinking
  • May

• I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

  

  William Hague
  • Government
  • Nasty
  • Clique

• There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Identity