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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In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
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People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word 'awesome' too much, but that's just me.
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I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on your forehead.' I do. It's just the bones are holding them all out, and the cheekbones are holding my face up.
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People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
