Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.Shirley Chisholm
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel Alexander -
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer -
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
Barbara Corcoran -
When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
Wayne Newton -
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
Aaron Neville
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
Lady Gaga -
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
Beck -
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
Nastia Liukin -
Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
Sam Raimi -
I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
J. R. Smith -
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
Karen Hughes -
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
Malin Akerman -
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
Zachary Quinto -
When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
Ingrid Betancourt -
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
Tan Le
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch -
I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.
Ed Sullivan -
It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
Yuri Milner -
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.
Shirley Chisholm