John Hickenlooper Quotes
We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.
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Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
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There's no Hollywood tradition of maybe not telling people that you're gay to protect your future ambitions. The YouTube world is a little unprecedented. I think what people are seeing is that the more true to yourself you are, the more an audience will connect with you.
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I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
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Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.
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I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
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In my misspent youth, I was risky.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.
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We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.
