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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Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
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They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
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I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
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I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.
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If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?
