Jared Polis Quotes
Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.
Quotes to Explore
-
In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
-
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
-
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
-
It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
-
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
-
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
-
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
-
I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
-
I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
-
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
-
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
-
I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
-
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
-
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
-
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
-
No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
-
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
-
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
-
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
-
In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
-
We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.
-
The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
-
I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.
-
Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.
