Van Jones Quotes
It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"
Quotes to Explore
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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My father is an amazing person.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"
