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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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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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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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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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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Proust is a huge author for me.
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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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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
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I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
