Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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Mr. Trump is a chief executive in the private setting of a very complex business.
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The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper.
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Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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Maybe I was a little superior. But I don't think I was superior. I just didn't understand how to talk to them, how to be myself around them. Being around other guys didn't make me feel smarter. Being around other guys made me feel stupid and inadequate. It was like they were all part of this club and I wasn't a member.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
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It's good to be on the power list, but I don't see a practical use of it except when people introduce me to audiences.
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I like moving, challenging myself.
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I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.
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I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.
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In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
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I think you have lots of actors who would much rather do a wonderful part at the Royal Shakespeare Company, but then you have to take a two-line part in a TV thing to pay the bills.
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Be as bold as the first man or woman to eat an oyster.
