Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
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It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
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For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered in a fixed format, one that encouraged readers to believe in stable and settled truths.
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I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.
