Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
Ted Danson -
I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
Salma Hayek -
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton -
Hopefully, ... as we go here in preseason, we'll get in groove with our whole offense.
Joe Gibbs -
We are awaiting the police assessment of the video.
Jack Straw
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All criticism is a form of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde -
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.
Norm MacDonald -
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
Carol Grace -
If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
Thomas Nagel
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It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.
Miroslav Lajcak -
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
A. J. Jacobs -
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
Jack Levine -
This [EURO] was never a hate group, the European American Unity and Rights Organization was an organization in its charter is dedicated to true civil rights and stopping discrimination against people, that the best qualified people should be engaged and that every people have the right to preserve their heritage, their freedom and their values.
David Duke -
I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.
Shirley Chisholm