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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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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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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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
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Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
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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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Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.
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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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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically.
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
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Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
