Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.'

Jim Gaffigan

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BestNew YorkTexasThinkingYou

When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

Joel Grey

TheatreLookingSayingThinkWant

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

John Gresham Machen

TwoPointOppositionModernChief

In my view, the Conservative Party is the party best equipped to defend the British way of life.

John Paul Getty Jr.

LifeBestViewPartyWayDefend

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Robert Orben

WorkTogetherLaughYou

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

Maud Adams

FilmGetOnlyExceptionalSweden

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

John Ratzenberger

WorldBetterCountryPollutionSee

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

Masayoshi Son

FutureI AmThinkLookBackTry

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.

Mickey Rooney

JobMeNobodyOldTwoForty

Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind, it is easy to imagine that we are making far more racial progress than we actually are.

Michelle Alexander

ProgressMindEasyInequalityMatter

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

Joshua Waitzkin

FocusPeopleEndAmericaResult

Remember: If you don't schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.

Chris Gardner

BossColleaguesRememberYouLose

As a kid, I just always learned that if you want to be the best, you have to play against the best.

Christian Pulisic

BestYouPlayWantKidAlways

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