Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
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I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
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I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
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You can do a whole scene in acting without ever checking in to what the other guy is saying - it's not going to come off great, but you can get through the scene - whereas in improv, that's gonna be impossible.
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Dark Horse was my second time working with Todd Solondz. I love him truly, very much. And I don't think he'd ever worked with an actor a second time. It was groundbreaking.
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Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
