Jared Polis Quotes
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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 don't think about my fame very much.
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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
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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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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
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You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
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All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
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I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.
