Jimmy Fallon Quotes

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

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• I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

• I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Reading
  • Text

• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • School
  • Child

• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Different
  • War
  • Change

• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

  Harold Warner
  • God
  • Grace
  • Humility

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Confident
  • Only
  • Prepared

• At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Want
  • Punishment

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Strength
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Song
  • Being
  • Lyrics

• Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Vision

• We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'

  

  Martin Naughton
  • Future

• As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.

  

  Bertil Ohlin
  • School
  • Mother
  • Age

• The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Desire

• I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
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  • Night
  • Wish