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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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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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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I'm a grandfather now, and when I watch children's shows with my two-year-old grandson, Arlo, I'm delighted because it's completely non-traditional casting. It feels like a utopia. How the world should be.
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Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
