Van Jones Quotes
If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
Quotes to Explore
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.'
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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
