Van Jones Quotes
Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I have a great office.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
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Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'
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Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
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Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.
