Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.
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I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.
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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
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This earth is exciting. There are so many things happening.
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Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.
