Jim Gaffigan Quotes
For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple.
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It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
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I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
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For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.
