Van Jones Quotes
Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I love books.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.
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I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
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In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.
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Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.
