Jennifer Jones Quotes

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

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• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Planet

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Thought
  • Moment
  • Roses

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Rock

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Street
  • Detour

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something – I worked in HR at the time – they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Rule

• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Health
  • Environmental

• I have matured a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lot
  • Matured

• If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Good

• Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • History
  • Humanity

• In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Society

• I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains.

  

  Jonathan Freeman
  • Up
  • Disney

• I think everybody benefitted from what I am calling a bubble finance system, a bubble economy and if we're ever going to right the system, we're going to have to stop this explosion of the federal debt. We need huge spending cuts, OK? Don't get me wrong, we need to raise regular taxes too but even beyond that it's not going to hurt if we want to reset the system to ask those who have benefitted disproportionately - remember, we got $60 trillion of net worth in the household sector. $45 trillion of that belongs to the top 5 percent.

  

  David Stockman
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Hurt

• My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

  

  Jennifer Jones
  • Mother