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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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
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Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.
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The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'
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I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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.
