Van Jones Quotes
You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
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If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
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I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
