Jared Polis Quotes
Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.
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Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.
