Jennifer Granholm Quotes
Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.
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Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.
