Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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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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We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
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I'm as self-promoting as the next guy.
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My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
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Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
