Jared Polis Quotes

To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • You
  • Audience
  • Books

• The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Potential
  • Truth Is

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Great
  • Believe
  • High

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Loved

• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Hope
  • Give

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with on 'Austin & Ally;' the cast and crew are like my family now. We have so much fun, and I'm so happy they're in my life!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Eye
  • Exercise
  • Information

• Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Life
  • Time

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Small

• To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Time
  • Focus