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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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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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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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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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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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
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We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
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I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was the first film and the first good thing that I have done.
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The worst thing that happens to you at college if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you will miss two hours of someone reading scintillating anecdotes about Medieval Ireland. The worst thing that happens to you in life if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you might lose your job as a first responder.
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I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
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I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.
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Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
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My cat Isabella, she doesn't get along with anyone else. She's kind of like me: like, very anti-social and fierce. So we speak to each other on a spiritual level, and we cuddle every night. So it's pretty serious.
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I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
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It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
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I'm a traditional wife in every sense.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
