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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I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.
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You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
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I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
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Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.
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Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
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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.
