George Hickenlooper quote: "Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel."

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and...
GEORGE HICKENLOOPER

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromisin...
GEORGE HICKENLOOPER

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical play...
GEORGE HICKENLOOPER

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique ab...
GEORGE HICKENLOOPER

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art his...
GEORGE HICKENLOOPER

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
GEORGE HICKENLOOPER

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what lo...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're co...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the cent...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

When I got inaugurated in 2010, OneRepublic donated their time and played for the inauguration. And ...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse ef...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of s...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Infrastructure is more than laying new roads and expanding transit: it's running the fiber and d...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid o...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we ...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an effi...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda ...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better runni...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

People turn off the news, stop reading in-depth magazine articles - especially young people. Look at...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Isolationism is not leadership.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His n...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all po...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Afforda...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians j...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millio...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

If the two economies can figure out how to waltz... I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges a...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, ...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying ar...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just t...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make ...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY

Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL

Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL

I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL

I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL

I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL

Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.

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George Hickenlooper

Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.

George Hickenlooper

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