Van Jones Quotes
Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
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Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.
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The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of parties to blame for the growth in payrolls and obligations.
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Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
