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 still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
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I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.
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How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
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When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
