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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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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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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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
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When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.
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I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them.
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Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting. His temper is frightening.
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There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'
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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
