Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I don't like possessions.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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The people from Prague and other Czechs should be whipped who speak half Czech and half German (...) And who could enumerate how the Czech language has already been corrupted, so that the true Czech hears they speak, but he does not understand them. And from that arises envy, anger, conflict, strife and Czech humiliation.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
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I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.
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Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.
