Jennifer Granholm Quotes

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Get

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Political

• Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Decision
  • End
  • February

• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People
  • Done
  • Strong

• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Office
  • Medicine
  • Alchemy

• I love to take baths.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Love
  • Take
  • Baths

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Me

• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Me
  • Insults
  • Hail

• Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Washington
  • Ignoring

• I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Up
  • Fashion

• I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Why
  • Character
  • Choice

• If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Worry

• Compromise in colors is grey.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Compromise
  • Colors
  • Grey

• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Cold

• Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Life
  • Great
  • Drama

• I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Religious

• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

  

  Arthur Wellesley
  • God
  • Men
  • Enemy

• I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • Comedian

• I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

  

  Jennifer Granholm