Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.
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As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.
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I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
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Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.
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He who kills the cheer springs for beer.
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Everyday is a revolution.Welcome to the future.
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My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There's a song called, Road Worn, which is about spending so much time on the road and is a lot more jazzy sounding than most of my other music.
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
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I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.
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Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
