Jim Gaffigan Quotes
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.
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Let the black flower blossom as it may!
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‘You are admitting, then, to frivolity of attitude to important global problems?’
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Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
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The art is long, life is short.
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I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.
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I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
