John Hickenlooper Quotes
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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I am glad that our country is starting to have a serious conversation about how to repair our broken immigration system - it is long overdue.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.
