Jason Jones Quotes

For news, I follow 'The New York Times,' 'The New Yorker,' and 'ProPublica.' For entertainment, I like The A.V. Club and The Onion.

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• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Fans
  • Sexy

• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Believe
  • War
  • Failure

• America preaches integration and practices segregation.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Segregation

• The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Political
  • Constitution

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • World
  • Loved
  • Talking

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Money
  • Voice

• It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Why
  • She
  • Perfect

• You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Chance

• I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • American
  • Way
  • Annoying

• I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Think
  • You
  • Ridiculous

• Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Society
  • Speak

• And better had they ne'er been born,Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Doubt

• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  

  Andrew Bonar
  • Christian
  • Sleep
  • Brother

• I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

  

  Ken Ham
  • People
  • School
  • Book

• We're an unselfish team. When you move the ball, you get the best shot. The ball is getting into the right people's hands at the right time.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Actually
  • How
  • Criminal

• For news, I follow 'The New York Times,' 'The New Yorker,' and 'ProPublica.' For entertainment, I like The A.V. Club and The Onion.

  

  Jason Jones