Jared Polis Quotes
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
Quotes to Explore
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.
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I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'
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I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
