Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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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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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A good leader must be fair.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.
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I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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Well I'm running down the roadTryin' to loosen my load,I've got seven women on my mind,Four that wanna own me,Two that wanna stone me,One says she's a friend of mine.
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When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.
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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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Monumenta fatiscunt:mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'
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After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.
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For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
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Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
