Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
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I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.
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There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.
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It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
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It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.
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Not only is it OK for a woman to write about a tough guy, but it might even help sell him.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
