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Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you can prove their viability.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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[I wish no one ever asked me ] Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11? Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.
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We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.
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We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.
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It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
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[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because she loved him.
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