Jim Gaffigan Quotes
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I was a campaign widow.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
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At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.
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I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.
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When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.
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My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.
