Jim Gaffigan Quotes

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

Jim Gaffigan

• Childhood
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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Growth
  • Unique
  • Promise

• Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Market
  • Other

• My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • People
  • Husband
  • Difference

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • May
  • Man
  • Reality

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Day
  • Artist

• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Forever
  • Growth
  • Spirit

• So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Long
  • Man
  • Impossible

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• Even when I first started modeling, my loyalty to those girls like Molly Goddard, Ashley Williams, and Dilara Findikoglu was important. I like to support them as much as I can. For me, it's as important to walk in their show or wearing their clothes as it is doing a Marc Jacobs show.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Important
  • Support
  • Loyalty

• I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dream
  • Free
  • Life is

• Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Great
  • Done
  • Help

• I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they're not affected by my life.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Children
  • Childhood

• The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Childhood
  • Perspective
  • Nurture