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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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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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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I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
