Quotes
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Jim Gaffigan
"The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating." --
Source : "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.
Jim Gaffigan
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“When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.”
“Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.”
“Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.”
“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
“If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?”
Source : Natasha Friend (2012). “My Life in Black and White”, p.45, Penguin
“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”
“Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.”
Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.21, Da Capo Press
“I will not be doing any FHM or crazy Maxim magazines. I will leave that to the other actresses in Hollywood who want to shed their clothes because they think that's beneficial to them. I would much rather chose a creative way - like in a movie.”
