Leslie Jones Quotes
I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
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I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
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I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
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I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
