Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.
Quotes to Explore
-
Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
-
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
-
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
-
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
-
For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
-
I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
-
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
-
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
-
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
-
I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
-
I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
-
You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
-
What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
-
I'm more of a people pleaser.
-
'Gold,' says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.
-
I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
-
I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
-
The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.
-
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
-
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.
-
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.
-
Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle class jobs lost during the correction: six million. Middle class jobs recovered: one million. So therefore we're up 16 percent on the jobs that were lost. These are only born-again jobs. We don't really have any new jobs, and there's a massive speculative frenzy going on in Wall Street that is disconnected from the real economy.
-
We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.
