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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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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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
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Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.
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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.
