Van Jones Quotes
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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I always try to live in the moment.
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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
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When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
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The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.
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Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.
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I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.
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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
