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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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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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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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
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If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it. You can be fearless in your storytelling if you're vigilant about protecting your characters.
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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.
