Jared Polis Quotes
Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.
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When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
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The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.
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I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
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I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.
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Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?
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Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
