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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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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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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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated.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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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
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You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
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I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn't know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it.
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It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry is there for a reason. Country music lives there. Don't be bitter. And don't ever treat Texas or Nashville like either one isn't important."
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I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.
