Vernon Jordan Quotes
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Quotes to Explore
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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When I'm snowboarding, I just feel stronger and more flexible and more able to trust my instincts - because there are times when you really do have to be mindful with the jumps you're hitting and the conditions that you're riding in.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.
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Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
