Van Jones Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
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'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'
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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.
