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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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 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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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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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.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.
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There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy, but I really believe that. It's such a euphoric experience that I sort of want to chase that experience as often as possible.
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How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.
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Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
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Today I rode the new bike all day and we made some good progress. It was the first time we've had chance to spend a lot of time on the chassis and engine and I went quite a lot faster on it than I did last time here so that's positive. It's still a prototype machine and there are a lot of things we still need to try because it's quite a bit different to my other bike. It would have been nice to test the two bikes back to back but I'm sure we'll get a chance tomorrow.
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When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
