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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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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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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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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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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One of the most bitter complaints of craft brewers is that big beer wins consumers by introducing beers whose names resemble the names of actual independent beers. After New Belgium came out with a popular beer called Sunshine Wheat, MillerCoors, through its Leinenkugel brand, came out with a beer called Sunset Wheat.
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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
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I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
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With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
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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.
