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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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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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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As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.
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He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.
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It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
