Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

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• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Attention

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Los Angeles

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Winning
  • Voice
  • Blue

• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Work
  • Body
  • Voice

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Voice

• Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Father
  • Voice

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Race

• Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Water
  • Voice

• I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

  

  Dale Robertson
  • People
  • Voice
  • Everyday

• Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Poetry
  • Better
  • Voice

• Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Sometimes
  • Voice
  • Logic

• I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Voice

• I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Not Good Enough

• We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Winning

• The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Kids
  • Scene

• Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.

  

  Arlene Dahl
  • Face
  • Envy
  • Destroy

• Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Voice
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