Van Jones Quotes

[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because she loved him.

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• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • You

• The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Man
  • Me

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Party
  • Fashion

• The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Think
  • Stupid
  • Internet

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Will
  • Compass

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Down
  • Afraid
  • Walk

• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Been
  • Upset
  • Facebook

• I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Like
  • Color
  • Weakness

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • World
  • Long
  • Relationship

• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Learn
  • Better

• There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.

  

  David Harewood
  • Opportunity

• I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Know

• Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

  

  Adele
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  • Dream
  • Support

• 'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn't show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That created a different way of tuning it and ultimately editing it.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Different
  • Waiting

• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  

  James Brolin
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Wish

• [Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because she loved him.

  

  Van Jones
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