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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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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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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I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.
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i am do big fard
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We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.
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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.
