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
  • Man

• 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

• 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

• No way in, go in, measure.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

  

  Dmitry Medvedev
  • Work
  • Music
  • Different

• Men practice war; beasts do not.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • War
  • Practice
  • Beast

• Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Opinion

• Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • People
  • Hate

• 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