Van Jones Quotes
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.
Van Jones
Quotes to Explore
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin
Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
Victor Cousin
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray
When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady Gaga
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Yehuda Berg
Making music is fantastic.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
Women just love to shop.
Natalie Massenet
To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
Fat Joe
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
Wendy Kopp
It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
Samantha Barks
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
Sam Graves
I love working with women.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
Vin Scully
If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
Mariella Frostrup
Modesty is not one of my virtues.
Alan King
I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
Yvonne Strahovski
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
Gary Jennings
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.
Van Jones
