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.
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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.'
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I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
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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.
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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.
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I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.
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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.
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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.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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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.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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Sans douteJe peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.
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Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
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You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?) (Hays translation)
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'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.
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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.
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There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.
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I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.
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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.
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What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.
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Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.
