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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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated.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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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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One thing I would tell women is that they must take up the challenge. Very often, we anticipate a lot of problems, and therefore, we don't take the lead. And I think that we are shortchanging ourselves if we don't do that.
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
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Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but I think it's all good to have a healthy debate about who Hitchcock was and what that means to people. He means a lot of different things to a lot of different people because the films are so great. If the movies were not great, no one would be bothering to show any interest.
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There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.
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I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.