Van Jones Quotes
We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.
Quotes to Explore
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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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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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.
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It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
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When people hear my story, my hope is always that they start to believe that the life they want is possible for them, because I am living the life I've always dreamed.
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
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We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.
