Van Jones Quotes

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

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• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Pretty
  • Road
  • Famous

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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  • Thought
  • Years

• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

  Kaskade
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• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • True
  • Reality
  • Reflect

• I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Children
  • Way
  • Brother

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Me
  • Said
  • Yes

• Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Time
  • Choices
  • Look

• The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Book
  • Kids

• At any time of day, hundreds of different versions of Facebook are running on the Internet - with a changed color here, a moved button there - and the user response to each variation is measured. And the same is done with advertising.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Time
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• I thought the best thing to do to bring me back to reality would be to have a child, and by the time I had my first, Taylor, when I was 25, we'd sold 35 million records as a band, and I'd had enough; I knew my sanity was more important than success.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
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• With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.

  

  Kirsten Green
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  • Game
  • Space

• Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

  

  Demetri Martin
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• I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

  

  Van Jones
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