Jared Polis Quotes

Colorado is a trade-dependent state.

Jared Polis

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• Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Food
  • Single
  • Environmental

• I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Community
  • Doing
  • Theater

• I got discovered off of YouTube.

  

  Becky G
  • Got
  • YouTube
  • Off

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • Talent

• I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Hate

• When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Up
  • Internet
  • Coffee

• I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Young

• If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Good
  • Song
  • Feeling

• I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • Home
  • Discipline

• People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Athlete

• Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Time
  • Country
  • America

• I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Learned

• My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Same

• And we believe in democracy - that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people; that every individual is born equal with fundamental rights, inalienable rights, and that it is the responsibility of governments to uphold these rights.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• Have you noticed lately how video games are getting way more sexually explicit and violent? I really gotta buy me one of them games! (p. 197).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Listening
  • Advice

• I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • People
  • School
  • Fun

• Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

  

  David A. Bednar

• I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • English
  • Rose

• Colorado is a trade-dependent state.

  

  Jared Polis