Van Jones Quotes

In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Eye
  • News

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Purpose

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Man
  • Crazy

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Style
  • Reflect

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Learning
  • Design
  • Build

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Experience
  • Problem
  • View

• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Again
  • Once
  • Arrogance

• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Walking
  • Irish

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dangerous
  • Superman
  • Rope

• The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Technology
  • Learning

• As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

  

  Allyson Schwartz
  • Brain

• On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hand

• In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Green
  • Jobs