Jennifer Granholm Quotes

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

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• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Never

• North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • North Korea

• I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Intelligent

• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • People
  • Change
  • Dad

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Job
  • Law

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Future
  • George Bush
  • Entrust

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Here
  • Communism
  • Russians

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Food

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Always
  • Questions
  • Answer

• The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like America now. It helps create a connection that wouldn't have been there if it was 20 white guys on stage.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • America
  • Connection
  • Distance

• I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Life
  • Children
  • Words

• In running, the only equipment that really matters - at least the mentality was in those days - were the pair of shoes that you wore.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Running
  • Shoes

• Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Trying

• My God, Donald Trump is unfit! He's ill-tempered, he's unsuited, he is not qualified, he's unsuited to be president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Trump
  • President

• When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
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