Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I see some people with glasses here, I trust people with glasses, don't you? But if you're wearing your glasses like this ... "Get away from 'em!"
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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If I was constantly on TV, people would get bored of me.
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The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.
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Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.
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When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.
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Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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I see some people with glasses here, I trust people with glasses, don't you? But if you're wearing your glasses like this ... "Get away from 'em!"
