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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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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About shocking. You know I feel comfortable in my skin. I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.
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But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
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You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
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If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.
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As an actor, I want to do something I will be remembered for. I think Maaya is that kind of film.
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Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
