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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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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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
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Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.
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Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
