January Jones Quotes
People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.
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I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
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People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
