Van Jones Quotes

A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

Van Jones

• People
• Beautiful
• Effort
• Wise
• Green
• Ugly

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • People
  • Words
  • Language

• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
  • Old
  • Barber

• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Key

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• I think a great athlete transcends eras.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Athlete

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Start

• If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Done
  • High
  • Progress

• I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Artist
  • Audience

• I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Think
  • Radio
  • Open

• Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Rip

• A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Effort