Van Jones Quotes
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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I'm just going to go out there and do my best.
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See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
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I don’t fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, 'You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me.' It makes me weepy … but I don’t think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
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I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.
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I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.
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There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
