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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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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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 am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
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The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.
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I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
