Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
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America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.
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I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.
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It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.
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In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.
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Trying to learn from communities and engage with policy makers and community organizers all across the country is really important to me.
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There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
Chaka Fattah -
I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.
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The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It's not about attendance - it's about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.
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Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
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Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
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Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
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That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
