Jared Polis Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I come from a poor family.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.
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Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.
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The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.
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The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
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We need innovation and creativity.
