Jared Polis Quotes
I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.
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When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.
