Jim Gaffigan Quotes
You think Jesus ever tried to talk God out of some of that stuff? 'Instead of that whole crucifixion, how about we do a big fundraiser!'
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski -
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.
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If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.
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Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
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Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.
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You think Jesus ever tried to talk God out of some of that stuff? 'Instead of that whole crucifixion, how about we do a big fundraiser!'
