Van Jones Quotes
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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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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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.
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People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.
