Van Jones quote: "You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!"

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES

He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
VAN JONES

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON

What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON

The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON

hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON

From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS

I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN

[In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON

His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON

[10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON

Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN

I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN

This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER

Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER

Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN

Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER

We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN

It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE

That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE

It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE

a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE

Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE

My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE

There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN

I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN

We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET

I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN

She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN

Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN

It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN

You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN

We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN

I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN

It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN

It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR

The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN

I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER

Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER

The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON

Jump!
VAN HALEN

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER

has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE

First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER

Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON

They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus,
VAN ORDEN

It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the ...
LINDSAY VAN

I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it ...
LINDSAY VAN

Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD

The media market it fragmenting like crazy right now,
VAN BAKER

We do have great depth, and great depth is good,
VAN CHANCELLOR

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.
VAN CLIBURN

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting tou...
VAN COLEMAN

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on ...
VAN HEFLIN

Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN

Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT

The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ...
FELICITY JONES

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet...
QUINCY JONES

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
TAYARI JONES

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
TAYARI JONES

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the c...
TAYARI JONES

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES

I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
TAYARI JONES

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e...
TAYARI JONES

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
TAYARI JONES

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
TAYARI JONES

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe...
TAYARI JONES

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field o...
TAYARI JONES

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho...
TAMALA JONES

I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
TAMALA JONES

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
TAMALA JONES

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES

I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around b...
TAMALA JONES

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my J...
TAMALA JONES

I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES

I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out ...
TAMALA JONES

I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
TAMALA JONES

For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES

I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES

You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c...
QUINCY JONES

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES

In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES

I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES

I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES

The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES

Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES

He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES

We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES

We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

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