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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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
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I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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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.
