Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on!
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
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And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.
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I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.
