Richard Jeni

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Live each day as if it were the last day of your life because, so far, it is.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Life
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A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Yoga
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A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Running
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In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Dream
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The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut case when you first meet him.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Nuts
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I don't get that - people going to war over religion. I don't know, I could see going to war over justice or democracy or even revenge. But if you're going to war over religion, now you're just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Revenge
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I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Tattoo
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When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Funny
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Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Religious
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Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered whey they die but they're not getting up early on a Sunday.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Spiritual
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Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Important
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The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire'and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat.'
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Sex
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Married or Single? There is no good choice. It's like when your doctor says, 'Ointment?' or 'Suppositories'?
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Doctors
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Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Divorce
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Why is human cloning illegal? All it is is making a certain type of person on purpose. Can they possibly be any worse than the assholes we're pumping out by accident?
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Purpose
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It's always the guy who gets the diarrhea on the commercial at an inconvenient moment. As if you've ever been in a situation: 'You know, this would be a great time to get the runs, you think? I mean the sun's out, we're on the ferris wheel - what are we waiting for?
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Running
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Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Country
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I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Funny
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Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Success
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I met a girl, we ate, we drank, had sex, got married, had affairs, broke up - God, what a night that was!
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Girl
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The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Fighting
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I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Mom
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In any relationship there are certain doors that should never be opened. The bathroom door, for example.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Doors
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You know what the average person is? Average.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Average
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There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Lying
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Why do women care about how big their feet are? I never saw a guy at the beach going, 'Wow, look at that woman, she is really... oh, darn! The feet are too big.'
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Beach
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Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Sports
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You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Death
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That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: People
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Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Football
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If you ever thought you were ugly, Los Angeles is the place to come and find out you were right.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Ugly
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If carrots are good for my eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Eye
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Easiest job you could ever have... whoever gets to put Michael Jackson in a witness chair and create reasonable doubt.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Jobs
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Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Animal
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Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Children
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Michael Jackson is what happens when you keep fixin' it until it's broke!
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Broke
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We would need less gun control if we had better birth control.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Gun
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There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Epidemics
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Nobody is really qualified to be the president. Basically it's an acting job. You have to act like you're the president. And every four years the country holds a big casting call.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Country
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To me, the acceptable level of fecal matter is... zero.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Zero
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In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: New York
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If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: War
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Never fry bacon when you're naked.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Naked
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We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Half
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If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Careers
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Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Animal
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In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing a Hefty bag and sleeping in a doorway. If you win you can have sex with Catherine Zeta Jones when you're seventy-five.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Sex
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It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Marriage
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Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Real
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America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!
- Richard Jeni
Collection: America