Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.
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I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
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I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.
