Van Jones Quotes
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.
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The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
