Van Jones Quotes
Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.Van Jones
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
Kaley Cuoco -
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
Ban Ki-moon -
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
Kacey Musgraves -
I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
Carice van Houten -
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
Gabrielle Union -
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
Utada Hikaru
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky -
I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
Eddie Trunk -
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T -
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
Harold Prince -
You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
Laura Linney -
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra -
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
Felix Dennis -
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky -
People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
Maisie Williams -
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
Kat Edmonson -
Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.
Ali Babacan
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You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
Brian Mulroney -
I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson -
Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.
William C. Dement -
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie -
Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.
Van Jones