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Jared Polis Quotes

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 12, 1975

Topics

History Society Forward Values Only

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

Love School Loved Acting First Out

I always said, as a dietician, age doesn't matter. As long as you're doing good research and helping people eat well, it doesn't matter what age you are.

Good Age People Research Doing You

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom Ideas Enemy March Events

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

Robert J. Shiller

School Remember Back Detroit First

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

Tough Movies Up Tough Guy Guy Here

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

Work Good Grateful People Appreciate

My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.

Stephen Graham Jones

Car Book Talking You Uncle Hand

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

Hate People Me Cool Questions You

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Looking Back Looking Legal Fighting

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

Time Personality People Interesting

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

God Age Man Gift Person Young

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

Louise Bourgeois

Father Mother Me Control America

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