Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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I remember music first artists second.
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We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
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My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.