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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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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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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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic - I'll shut up.
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If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
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When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
