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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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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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'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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Well, if there's no 'war' that begins, but you say 'war begins', no one's going to buy your newspaper the next day because they'll be on to the fact that you don't know what you're talking about.
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently moves as you or I.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.
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In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.
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I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.
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People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
