Van Jones Quotes

...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

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• A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Nothing
  • Prove
  • Accomplished

• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Want
  • Hill

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I am a Zionist.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Zionist

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Animals
  • Recognize

• MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • American
  • Name
  • Irish

• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Professional
  • Manager
  • Farm

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Understanding
  • Things
  • Enlightenment

• As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Company
  • Teenager
  • Him

• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• The first session of the Congress of the United States under the Constitution was devoted principally to the problems of immediate revenues and administrative and judicial organization.

  

  Charles A. Beard
  • Organization

• Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Sea
  • Mountain
  • Grandparents

• Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

  

  Lionel Hampton
  • Thinking

• I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater.

  

  David Morse
  • Money

• ...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

  

  Van Jones
  • Money
  • Couple