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 always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
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If one by one we counted people out.
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I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!
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Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.
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If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.
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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
