Jared Polis Quotes
I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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I want Charo to live with me in my house. I want to have her in my pocket whenever I need cheering up.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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I didn't have any pets growing up.
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That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.
