Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
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It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
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Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.
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I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing.
