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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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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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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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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I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
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I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
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Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
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They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.
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When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
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It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
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When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. The spring sunshine was not too warm. The street was almost empty. The witch in my fairy-book came walking along. She stooped to fish some mouldy grapes out of the gutter.
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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
