Van Jones Quotes
Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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After he married TerRAHsa[
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I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.
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'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
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Cloud walking. I like that. And yeah, that's exactly how you make me feel. Like my feet will never touch the ground.
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Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
