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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There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.
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When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.
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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
