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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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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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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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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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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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.
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It's private enterprise that can create jobs and fill them. It's business that can train people and make them productive tax-payers. And it's America Inc. that has the most to gain from tapping this extraordinary human resource.
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For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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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.
