Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
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Age for me is just a number.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
