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.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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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.
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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.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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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.
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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!
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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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.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.
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I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
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I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.
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When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
