Van Jones Quotes
Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
 
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	Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.   
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	Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.   
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	I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.   
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	I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.   
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	Every hero becomes a bore at last.   
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	Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.   
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	Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.   
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	It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.   
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	Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.   
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	It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.   
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	'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.   
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	I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.   
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	When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.   
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	Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.   
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	I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.   
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	If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.   
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	A man is as alive as he can communicate.   
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	I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.   
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	Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.   
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	I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.   
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	To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.   
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	The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.   
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	When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.   
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	Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					