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.

Shirley Chisholm

• Political
• Personality
• Independent
• Creative

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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.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Government
  • German

• I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Mind
  • Understand
  • Nobody

• 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.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Conceal

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Why
  • Business
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Real
  • Doing

• I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Things
  • While

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Health
  • Same
  • Neighbors

• My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Vinyl

• I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Struggle

• The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Will
  • Unite

• I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

  

  Parker Posey
  • She
  • New
  • New York

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• 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?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Lives
  • Worried

• I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Dark
  • Enjoy

• Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Light

• Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Life
  • Future
  • Cancer

• I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Good
  • May
  • Fun

• I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Creativity

• The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Independent
  • Lasts
  • British

• 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.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Political
  • Personality
  • Independent