Van Jones Quotes
If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
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The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless.
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As long as we find that the energy impact is only temporary ... my guess is that the effects on the overall economy will be fairly modest.
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If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.
