Rashida Jones Quotes
Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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My mother is still battling alcoholism.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
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I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
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I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'
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I want to be remembered as iconic and different.
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In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.
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I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.
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Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.
