Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes -
You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
Tariq Ramadan -
I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
Nathan Fillion -
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Ada Yonath -
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
Candice Swanepoel
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
Jack Keane -
One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
Tananarive Due -
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
Tariq Ramadan -
When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.
Brandi Carlile -
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.
Pope Benedict XVI -
There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.
Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
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By the time I auditioned for 'Aliens in America,' the July 7 bombing had happened in London. So I'd had those experiences where I would get onto the Tube, and people would get off. So there was a lot about Raja that I understood.
Adhir Kalyan -
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
Maria Bartiromo -
I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.
Ennio Morricone -
The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.
Mark Lawrenson -
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
Lisa Papademetriou
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It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.
Farah Pahlavi -
It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
Albert Einstein -
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone -
Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
Napoleon Hill -
I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm