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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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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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
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We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures … If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.
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What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.
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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.
