Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless-except the one we’re fighting now?
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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My favorite color is light pink. I also like baby blue because it brings out my eyes.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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I leave from where the apostle arrived.
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I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.
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Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything-even spikes on a new pair of shoes-but they will eventually...they are bound to.
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God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.
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If you look from my point of view, that's what Christians strive for - love from God.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
