Van Jones Quotes
Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I don't like allegories.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
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I love twins stories.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.
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The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
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The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
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There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.
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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
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Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.
