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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Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
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I am completely Socratic.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.
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I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.
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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.
