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.
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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.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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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.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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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.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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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.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I've always been into looking different.
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I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission.
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Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.
