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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Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.
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I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.
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I have this dream of directing. But as a child, I wanted to become a wrestler. Like, in childhood, we used to watch WWF; I was inspired by all of that. One of my favourite wrestlers was Rock, who has become an actor.
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I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
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You can only understand the present age when it is past.
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Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
