Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I've been very lucky.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
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I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.
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I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.
