Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
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My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
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I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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To love a thing means wanting it to live.
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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
