Van Jones Quotes
Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
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In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.
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I've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.
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Well, I'm an uncle now ... don't know if I'm a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil.
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Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
