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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'No!' shouted Arthur. 'What's wrong with you? They're people! You can't just kill hundreds or thousands of Piper's children because the Piper might... just might... make some of them do something!' 'Can't we?' asked Dame Primus. She sounded genuinely puzzled.
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Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
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I don't like making my job easier. How are you accomplishing anything if there's no struggle? If I have to create a struggle that doesn't exist, I'll do that. Time and money constraints are a great way to do it.
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I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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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.
