Jim Gaffigan Quotes

My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'

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• I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
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• China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Help
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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
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  • Chance

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
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• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
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• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • Desire
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• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Jesus
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• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
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• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
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  • Truth
  • Trouble

• In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Faith
  • Identity

• Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Men
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• God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Violence
  • Property

• I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

  

  Allison Janney

• I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Long
  • She
  • Kids

• My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kids
  • Annoying
  • Awake