Jim Gaffigan Quotes
Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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We care about margins.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
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Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.