Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.
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It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.
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It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
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One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a very positive way. When I do these things like Comic Con, I get people who are lawyers, judges, plumbers, carpenters, and entire families, and it's mostly for 'Batman.' But now, amazingly, it's also for 'Family Guy.'
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My feelings about myself have been terrible.
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Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
