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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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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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 like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I grew up in New York.
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To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
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Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.
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With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
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Kusewera, an organization that fosters orphanages in Africa and the Philippines and encourages through creative play and education. Anything and everything that supports cancer research. East West Players, the oldest and biggest Asian American theater in the U.S.
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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.
