Van Jones Quotes
Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I like being unconventional.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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I am a just man.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
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Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves.
