Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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What I do is I do my job.
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If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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And that’s why we support societies that empower women - because no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mothers, and our sisters and our daughters.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
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I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
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I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.
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When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
