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.
Quotes to Explore
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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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.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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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.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I am a Zionist.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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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.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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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.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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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.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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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.
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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.
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Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.
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You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?
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It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.
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I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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...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.
