John Hickenlooper Quotes
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
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Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe.
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After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes.
