Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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I got problems, can't sleep at night. Cause your girl wanna come around and freak all night.
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
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Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
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Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.
