Jim Gaffigan Quotes
When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.
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I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.
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When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.
