Jared Polis Quotes
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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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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When he came to television, there was no way I wasn't going to watch. Of course, he delivered everything that you would expect David Lynch to deliver, and more, and he was doing it in primetime network television. Even as a 14-year old, I wanted someone in the room with me that I could look over and say, 'Can you believe we're watching this?'
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As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.
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Nelson, to Harry '...I keep feeling hassled.'
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
