Jim Gaffigan Quotes

When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

Jim Gaffigan

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After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Owen

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Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

Matt Walsh

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Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.

Matthew Stewart

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You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

John Podesta

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What we have noticed at YouTube is that many users who have uploaded infringing content are unaware that it's illegal to do so.

Steve Chen

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There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

Trey Parker

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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

Mary Steenburgen

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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn't have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins.

Mona Simpson

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I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

Miyavi

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