"Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it."

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Jennifer Granholm

#People Quotes #Calling Quotes #Public Service Quotes

“When you feel your best, you're more confident in bed, It's not lights-out, under-the-covers sex. It's more like, 'Take a look at this!'”

Source : "Join the Gwyneth Paltrow & Tracy Anderson Fit Club". Interview with Judith Newman, www.redbookmag.com. December 20, 2012.
“Mom used to frame everything we made, and now I'm following her example. It makes children so proud to see their work on display instead of hidden away. I figure if I take my children's work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.”
“If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.”
“Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.”
“With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.”

Source : Gideon Defoe (2010). “The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab”, p.12, Vintage
“If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.”
“Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is”

Source : Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.133, Penguin
“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”

Source : Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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