Jim Gaffigan Quotes
Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.
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Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
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My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.
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My goal was never to sell many records.
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Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
