Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I don't think people really understand just how much pressure there is on her. I think she is doing fine.
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I am and always will be a catalyst for change.
