Van Jones Quotes
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!
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Everyone in a company needs incentives, but they should be tied directly to the performance of the company.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
