Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• 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
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• 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
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Choices
  • Biggest

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I come from a pretty strange family.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Strange

• Humor is a part of spirituality.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Humor
  • Part
  • Spirituality

• 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
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• 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
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Amazing

• 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
  • Up
  • Great
  • Know

• We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• 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
  • Great

• 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
  • Cool
  • Promise
  • Driving

• 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
  • Help

• Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.

  

  Patanjali

• Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Illness
  • Seven
  • Bipolar

• I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Job
  • Proud

• Not only did life originate on earth very early in its history as a planet, but for the first two billion years, Earth was inhabited solely by bacteria.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Life
  • History
  • Earth

• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Earth

• Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Earth
  • Rooms