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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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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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 most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.
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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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I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.
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Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
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Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
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All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.
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You know when you become friends with someone, you don't even remember? When you weren't friends? You're just kinda like, 'When were we not friends? When I met you, weren't we just already friends?' I have the same thing with the Strokes guys.
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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.
