Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Silence is my dignity.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.
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Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
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I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
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I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
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Here are his earlier letters to me, that I've framed. I call them ‘my degrees’.
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When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate... name it.
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A generous action is its own reward.
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Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
