Van Jones Quotes

I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Corruption
  • Test

• Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Theater

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Best

• I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • See

• Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Commitment
  • Mission

• I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Morning
  • Looking

• Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Animals

• Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Ambition

• Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

  

  Kendrick Lamar

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • School
  • Home
  • Mom

• I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my acting more.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.

  

  Van Jones
  • School
  • Parents
  • Church