Jared Polis Quotes
While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigration system, I also strongly stand for personal freedom.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to Vegas. I just tried everything I could think of, and nothing took. No one thought there was a place for my style and my music; it was just too different.
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Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded of political divisions.
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When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
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As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.
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While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigration system, I also strongly stand for personal freedom.
