Jennifer Granholm Quotes

We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

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• I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Friends
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Girl
  • Catholic
  • Down

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Energy
  • Ocean
  • Evolution

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Model
  • Musicians

• The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Response
  • Generosity

• There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Mother
  • Football
  • Player

• Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Child
  • Situation
  • Where

• I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • History
  • Culture

• There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Fantastic

• I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Tired

• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Why
  • Style

• While man is growing, life is in decrease;And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Death
  • Growing

• I'm all for the path of least resistance.

  

  Cody Lundin
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Least

• You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

  

  Gene Hackman
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Education

• In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Love
  • Job
  • True

• Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

  

  Steven Millhauser
  • Space
  • Silence
  • Sound

• We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

  

  Jennifer Granholm