Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would!
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When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.
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I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
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I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.
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I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.
