Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.
Jim Gaffigan
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
Ralph Fiennes
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Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
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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
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
Ada Yonath
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
Raney Aronson-Rath
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
Bassem Youssef
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
Laura Moser
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
Kara Swisher
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I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
John Cale
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
Iain McGilchrist
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I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.
Megan Hilty
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I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England.
Andy Rourke
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I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.
Jim Gaffigan