Van Jones Quotes
If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.
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It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.
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Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!
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Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
