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 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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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
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I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.
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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.
