Van Jones Quotes
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.Van Jones
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Ed Smith -
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
J. B. Smoove -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
Laura Carmichael -
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard -
We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
Ian Jackson
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen -
I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
Taya Kyle -
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama -
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Ogden Nash -
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
Gary Hamel
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
Warren Beatty -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert -
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx -
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
Beck -
I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
Kate Bush
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
Garet Garrett -
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield -
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
Harry S Truman -
Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.
William Bolitho -
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
Van Jones