L.V. Jones Quotes

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.

I feel quite grounded, which is great.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.

I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

Local politics matters a lot.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

America's government has to get the public investments right.

Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.