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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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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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 started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.
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Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
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One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine.
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I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
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I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.
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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.
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It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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We're not trying to shock people with our image.
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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.
