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.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Want
  • Feel

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• 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.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• 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.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Age
  • Aging
  • Disability

• I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Work Hard

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• 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.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Conservative
  • Democrat

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Musical
  • Performer

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

  

  James Caan
  • Life
  • Today

• I love 70's music.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.

  

  Brian Christian
  • People
  • Chief goals
  • Mental labor

• If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Faults
  • Attractive