Van Jones Quotes
Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make...The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do...It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.
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The children of this country under this Bush budget who rely on childcare will be Bush-whacked.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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I try to read 20 books a year.
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Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
