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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.
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Without remorse she gave good-bye to her fantasies. They'd served their purpose, they'd awoken her heart to its potential. But as far as using them as a template for her life ...
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It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
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What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
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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.
