Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
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The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
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I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.
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How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water.
