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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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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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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The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.
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In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
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Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
