Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.
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A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'
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I always want to learn and be challenged - and to get better as an actress.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.
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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.
