Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.
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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
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I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.
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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.
