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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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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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.
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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.
