Van Jones Quotes

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• At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Career

• My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Live
  • Children
  • Real

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Military
  • Chinese
  • Year

• I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Always
  • Baby
  • Dancing

• I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Today

• For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • College

• I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interest
  • Big
  • Swing

• The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Idea

• We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Sans douteJe peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.

  

  Edmond Rostand

• Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Knowledge

• 'Oh, I see,' said Jenny. 'But you're just getting these men New Age gurus to help you all feel better. I thought when you talked about helping people you meant other people. You know, like the blind.'Isn't everybody blind, in one way or another?' asked Wendy.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • People
  • Men
  • Help

• I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your life in fear. It is worse than actually losing your freedom.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Empowering

• I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Technology

• Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • World
  • Comedy

• This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

  

  Frederick Leboyer

• Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Believe
  • Job

• When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Dog

• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Balance
  • Anxiety
  • Disease

• The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

  

  Earl Butz
  • You
  • Difference
  • Worked

• Our goal at Home Theater Films is to inspire and entertain our audience. We want to make great movies that everyone can enjoy and elevate them with contemporary, relatable characters that naturally demonstrate their faith in real world situations.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

  

  Van Jones