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Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#city #during #especially #first #going

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#fairly #get #had #high #house

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#efficient #efficient way #efficiently #energy #environmental

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#appointing #argue #because #campaign #emphatic

I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#around #because #bunch #coming #had

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#every #give #ground #high #hold

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#backgrounds #coming #competing #dealing #delhi

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#effort #end #goth #much #part

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid. ↗

— Dwayne Hickman

#children #enjoy #few #just #kid

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#ago #anymore #bet #exercises #gave