John Hickenlooper Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
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Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
