"When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young personâ€™s life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity."

-- Van Jones

#Country Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.”
“People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet”
“You need bruises to know blessings and I have known both.”
“I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.”
“I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.”
“I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.”
“The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.”
“I'm more aware of time. The element of time.”

Source : Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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