#bro

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broken #ceiling #encouragement #ever #glass

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broad #century #class #companies #created

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#clown #else #gave #giant #his

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot. ↗

— Macy Gray

#bronze #comes #curl #curls #every

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#cannot #earth #heaven #masters #nor

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention. ↗

— Benny Green

#brown #could #dignity #four #had

Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#care #comfortable #i #like #other

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#artists #bars #brown #entire #first

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! ↗

— Graham Greene

#clock #cuckoo #democracy #did #five