Van Jones Quotes
Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.Van Jones
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
Sam Childers -
Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
Dale Earnhardt -
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
Ted Nugent -
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
Daniel Bryan -
Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose -
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
Page McConnell
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus -
I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
Gabrielle Union -
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman -
Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
Idris Elba -
I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
Vicki Lawrence
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
Taye Diggs -
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
Ed Rendell -
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
Raf Simons -
Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
Naftali Bennett -
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir -
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
Olga Kurylenko
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
Dana Spiotta -
Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.
Fred Willard -
Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
Naftali Bennett -
He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state. I said, 'Don't talk rot, old Tom Travers.' 'I am not accustomed to talk rot,' he said. 'Then, for a beginner,' I said, 'you do it dashed well.' And I think you will admit, boys and ladies and gentlemen, that that was telling him.'
P. G. Wodehouse -
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
David Limbaugh -
Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.
Van Jones