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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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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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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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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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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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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With a recent University of Rochester study concluding that the total effect of Sarbanes-Oxley has reduced the stock value of American companies by a staggering $1.4 trillion dollars, it is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
