Jared Polis Quotes
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.Jared Polis
Quotes to Explore
-
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Irving Stone -
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece -
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.
Kara DioGuardi -
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X
-
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine -
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!'
Sampha -
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco -
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
Edgardo Osorio -
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.
Abraham Lincoln
-
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch -
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith -
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
Olivia De Havilland -
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.
Ban Ki-moon -
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!
Dani Shapiro -
If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
Barry Goldwater
-
Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
David Suzuki -
I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.
Darell Hammond -
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Sara Paretsky -
In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.
Neil Patrick Harris -
I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.
Rebecca Makkai -
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
Jared Polis