Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my wife and - you know, and now we're going in there every other day baptizing a kid.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
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I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.
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Satan goes to church more than anybody else because he knows that, at a particular time and place, a corrupt church can devastate the cause of the gospel.
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I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my wife and - you know, and now we're going in there every other day baptizing a kid.
