Van Jones Quotes
For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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I am happy in Paris.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.
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If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.
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When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
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I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action - mother of all vices - I am the cause of no one's suffering.
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For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
