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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What you focus on grows.
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There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
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Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
