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.
Shirley Chisholm
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
Tavi Gevinson
I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
Rachelle Lefevre
I try to stay focused.
OMI
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.'
M.I.A.
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst
Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
Claude Debussy
Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
Frank Deford
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
Dave Winfield
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.
Shirley Chisholm
