Rashida Jones Quotes
Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.
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'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
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Some people get a kick out of Taylor Hicks being their landlord.
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Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.
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Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.
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The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren’t being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
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Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
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Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
