Van Jones Quotes
There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help. Help is on the way. We'll help them whether they like it or not.Van Jones
Quotes to Explore
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
Ted Strickland -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
Jacki Weaver -
One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
Parker Harris -
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover -
I rode horses since I was a kid.
Zach Roerig
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky -
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
Earl Warren -
I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
Taron Egerton -
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
Barbara Corcoran -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
Zack Wheat
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I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall -
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
Joanne Rowling -
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
Tana French -
Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
Lady Gaga -
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
Candace Bushnell
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
Vikas Swarup -
The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli -
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
Bill Watterson -
Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
Yasmine Galenorn -
My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma -
There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help. Help is on the way. We'll help them whether they like it or not.
Van Jones