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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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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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 don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
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Kisses sweeter than Tupelo honey.Little bit crazy like New Orleans.Memphis blue and Daytona sunny.Soft as cotton in some cut-off jeans.Don't you know, ain't nothing in the whole wide world like a Southern girl.
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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
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Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus husband. In the sitcom world, it's almost a cliche that the women have the common sense, going back to 'The Honeymooners.'
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
