Van Jones Quotes
People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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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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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
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Each mental act is a reality for which you are responsible.
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One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
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The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.
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Research has shown that depressed patients without prior histories of abuse or neglect tend to respond much better to antidepressants than patients with those backgrounds.
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People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.
