Rashida Jones Quotes

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

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• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Faith

• I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • People
  • Politics
  • Interested

• It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Live
  • House

• I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Ups And Downs

• People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it's something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I'm all for that.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and to always remain humble. I think that's one of the main reasons that my fans support me.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Parents
  • Support
  • Fans

• Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Help
  • Stupid
  • Actors

• You make me feel like a natural man

  

  Carole King
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Natural

• The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Today
  • Faith
  • Problem

• Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.

  

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Music and the music business are two different things.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Different
  • Business

• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Liberty

• In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • America
  • Food
  • Cooking

• But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • High
  • Society
  • Alone

• I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Beautiful

• I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate than anyone I can think of over the past twenty years, and she hasn't cracked under it. That's a kind of iron fortitude that maybe we need in the President of the United States. People project on to Hillary because she is a woman. They either hate her for everything they hate about women or they long for her to be everything they want in a woman. It's an impossible burden.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Laughing
  • Obsessed
  • Sponges