Van Jones Quotes
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like the blame game, though.
-
I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
-
Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
-
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
-
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
-
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
-
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
-
For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
-
There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
-
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
-
This Islam business kidnapped me.
-
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
-
At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
-
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
-
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
-
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
-
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
-
That's hot.
-
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
-
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
-
Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.
-
Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.
-
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
-
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.
