Van Jones Quotes

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Heroes

• All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • World
  • Different
  • Words

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • She
  • Parents

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Love
  • Range
  • Subtlety

• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Measure
  • Task

• Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Sometimes
  • Luck
  • Try

• There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Idea
  • Achieve

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Country
  • Father
  • Strong

• I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Night
  • Know
  • Born

• If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Good

• You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People
  • Growth

• I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Fall

• But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar
  • Hope
  • Responsibility
  • Spanish

• I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Work
  • Green