Van Jones Quotes
I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
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I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.
