Jim Gaffigan Quotes
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
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In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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You don't realise it, but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead.
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Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
