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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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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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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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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I've always been a lunatic.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
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What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
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I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.
