Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.
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Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
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Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.
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If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.
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It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
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After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.
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Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.
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I'm a germophobe, so I don't like people talking over my food, breathing, spitting, anything. Just let me eat in peace.
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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
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'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.
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I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.
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If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.
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Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
