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?"

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• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Him

• 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.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • People
  • House
  • Myself

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Boy
  • Down
  • Fish

• My father is an amazing person.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Amazing
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• 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!

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Real
  • You

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • You
  • Stronger
  • Crisis

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Scary

• We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Want
  • Words
  • Comfort

• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Small
  • Small Things

• I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

  

  Art Malik
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Food

• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Time
  • Game
  • Action

• If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

  

  Boris Becker
  • Black
  • Blonde

• 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?"

  

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