Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

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• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Up
  • Good
  • Art

• There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Something
  • Memorial
  • Online

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Happy
  • Community
  • Childhood

• Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Life
  • Adaptation
  • Symbiosis

• Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • May
  • Party
  • Drink

• I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • Value
  • Chances

• The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Job
  • Reality
  • Prohibition

• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Works
  • Ice Cream

• Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Evil
  • Everyday

• I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Tell

• I review all the riders for my music clients and make sure there's healthy food and snack options, like strained yogurt, fresh berries, and lean protein.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Riders
  • Healthy food
  • Music clients

• [Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Marriage
  • Fail
  • One Thing

• Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!

  

  Prince William
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Father

• Leverage is great when it works, and when it doesn't work, it creates a lot of issues. So I think if you limit the amount of leverage that people can borrow, or that banks can borrow, I think you'll find that you'll have a lot less issues going forward.

  

  Marc Lasry
  • People
  • Think
  • Issues

• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Talent
  • Amount
  • Skirts