Van Jones Quotes
Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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The world is too violent right now.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
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No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
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I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.
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Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.
