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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Guitar

• 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.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Important
  • You
  • Everything

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Work
  • History

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Truth
  • Energy

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Go

• I like to make my name of songs strange.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Name
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Pace

• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Mad
  • Race

• As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Play
  • Looking

• It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Power
  • War
  • Dream

• Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • School
  • Nice
  • Smile

• I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.

  

  Clara Mamet
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Should
  • Nothing
  • Conversation

• All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Share
  • Craftsman
  • Benches

• I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.

  

  Leslie Jones
  • People
  • Art