Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.
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I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks.
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Yeah, I am a character actor.
