Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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Companies can't offer every employee a vertical rise through the ranks, and some employees' careers will level off. Without the prospects of further advancement, how do you keep these people satisfied throughout what might now be a longer working life? By providing them with an increased level of autonomy.
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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?'
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If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?
