Van Jones Quotes
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
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Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
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Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. I pictured wars, I pictured the things my father had done to me, I pictured brutality, and when it was over, I am light.
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The first thing in credit is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business.
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As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.
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Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
