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Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.


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JIMMY FALLON Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm...
JIMMY FALLON I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.
JIMMY FALLON Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way...
JIMMY FALLON I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.
JIMMY FALLON L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I th...
JIMMY FALLON Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dang...
JIMMY FALLON Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.
JIMMY FALLON The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.
JIMMY FALLON Everyone looks so much better when they smile.
JIMMY FALLON I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciou...
JIMMY CHIN The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.
JIMMY WALKER We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
JIMMY CARTER Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he neve...
JIMMY CARTER Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
JIMMY CARTER We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu...
JIMMY CARTER War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...
JIMMY CARTER It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a...
JIMMY CARTER Testing oneself is best when done alone.
JIMMY CARTER Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social bound...
JIMMY CARTER We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage...
JIMMY CARTER I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTER America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense o...
JIMMY CARTER