Jennifer Granholm Quotes
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
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I'm addicted to growth.
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If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.
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In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.
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Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.
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When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
