Van Jones Quotes

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

Van Jones

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• I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Work
  • Things
  • Inspiring

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Trying
  • English

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure

• Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Work
  • Character
  • Loyalty

• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Know

• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Yourself

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Dad

• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Business

• I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Trying
  • Spiritual
  • Talking

• There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Women

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Why
  • Existence
  • Behavior

• I approach styling as if I were a woman and what I would want to wear to a certain event.

  

  Brad Goreski

• I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Done
  • Age

• After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

  

  Van Jones
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Wealth