Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
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It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on 'civil liberties and human rights' conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.
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Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
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Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.
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I just wanna go on the record to say I talk about U2 so much, I should be their publicist. I should be added to the PR team. U2 is my favorite band of all time. I love them so much.
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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
