Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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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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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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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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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.
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Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.
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When women think of power, we shouldn't think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we're going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women's voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That's the way it is in any species that survives.
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
