Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
Gary Sinise
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
L'Wren Scott
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Parker Stevenson
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
Gail Sheehy
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I come from a pretty strange family.
Illeana Douglas
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Humor is a part of spirituality.
Zooey Deschanel
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
Harlan Coben
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
Barry McGuire
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
T. S. Eliot
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson
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We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?
Victoria Moran
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A lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news, and I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews
Larry David
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Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Jason Mraz
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My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
William Shakespeare
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde
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A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
David A. Bednar
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm