Jim Gaffigan Quotes

One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

Jim Gaffigan

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• I liked to play dress-up.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Up
  • Play
  • Liked

• Growing up, I was always the small guy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Small

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Cool
  • Face
  • Bus

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
  • Men
  • Everything
  • Turn

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
  • Care
  • Meetings

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Important
  • Gender
  • Other

• If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Feedback

• I keep everything that's private private.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Everything
  • Keep
  • Private

• So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Kids
  • Opportunity
  • National

• That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Realizing

• To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Ideas
  • Feels
  • Impress

• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Senate
  • Republic
  • Spy

• One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Opportunity
  • Kind
  • Feels