Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

Shirley Chisholm

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Road

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • School
  • Me
  • Dad

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
  • Shallow

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Speed
  • Ball
  • Course

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Dad

• Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • High
  • Pretty

• Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Working
  • Author

• I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Years
  • Interested

• Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Famous
  • Easy
  • Start

• So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Alone
  • Abuse

• I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Director

• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Work
  • Soul

• I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

  

  Derek Bailey

• The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

  

  Kevin Rose
  • Quality

• I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

  

  SZA
  • Music
  • Lost
  • Attention

• I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Wish
  • Confidence
  • Gay

• As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Rich