Van Jones Quotes
Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
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Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.
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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.
