Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

Shirley Chisholm

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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.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • United States
  • Senator
  • Supporters

• 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.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• 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.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Forever

• A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Try
  • Director

• I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Voting

• As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Books
  • Author

• My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Vision
  • Better
  • Visionary

• I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Now

• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Simple

• Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

  

  Mena Suvari
  • Waiting
  • Television
  • Scripts

• I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Normal

• There is a revolution taking place in school and college campuses in India, and particularly in Kerala, much like the one that sowed the seeds of Silicon Valley in the U.S.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • School
  • College
  • Revolution

• Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment...you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Feeling

• The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

  

  Christina Romer
  • People
  • Future
  • Stop

• Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Revolution
  • Evolution
  • Revolutionary