Van Jones Quotes
There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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They're not injured, but they are terrified, everything is broken in the hospice.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I doubt that even if this evidence could be upgraded to 100 per cent it would persuade the sort of people who go on self-appointed missions of mediation to Baghdad. These people further fail to see that governments now have a further responsibility to their citizens - namely to see that something is done to prevent future assaults on civilisation.
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Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.
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There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.
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There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.
