Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.
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I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.
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Mothers need mothers. Let's be there for one another.
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Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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I had no cares. I was one of those kids: ‘If you laugh at me, laugh at me.’ I don’t have that censor, which is important in this business because you’re constantly told: ‘Gosh, you didn’t look very good. You don’t look pretty in that scene, or you didn’t do that right, or you’d look so much better if your hair looked lighter.’ You really have to have tough skin or you’d end up like a heaping, crying mess all the time.
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I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
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A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.
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I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.
