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.
Van Jones
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Frances Fisher
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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.
Eddie Izzard
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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.
Inbee Park
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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.
Queen Latifah
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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.
Lata Mangeshkar
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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.
Damien Rice
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
Nat Turner
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
Bashar al-Assad
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
Ansel Adams
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I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
Van Jones
