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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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
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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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You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
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I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.
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I was bartending when I recorded 'Same Love,' and when it was on the radio, too. I remember overhearing people talking about the song while I was making them drinks.
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When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
