John Hickenlooper Quotes
I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Sometimes success means having the right idea in the right place at the right time. Other times, it's about not being afraid to quit and move onto something new.
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Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.
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If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.
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' We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage.
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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
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I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.
