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.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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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.
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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.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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I have matured a lot.
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By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
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No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
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I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.
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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
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Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.
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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.
