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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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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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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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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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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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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There was something missing. But in my world, there is never time to figure out what is, in fact, missing.
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I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they're not affected by my life.
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Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
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I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.
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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.
