Jennifer Granholm Quotes
If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
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I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.
