Jay Leno Quotes

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Jay Leno

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• The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

  

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• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

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• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

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• These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

  

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• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

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• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

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• Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

  

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• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.

  

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• At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

  

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• When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

  

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• 'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

  

  Orson Welles
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• You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

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• If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

  

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• Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.

  

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• If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.

  

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• Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

  

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• Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

  

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• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

  

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• We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

  

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• What I do is play football. What I do doesn't change who I am and who God sees me as.

  

  Benjamin Watson
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• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  

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• At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

  

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• The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

  

  Jay Leno