Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
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A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
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Get low; grace will meet you there.
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As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
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Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.
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There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
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There are no rules in the entertainment business.
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In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this novel the New People, I listened to a lot of 90s hip-hop, which was just so genius. Also, all the musical references in the book from the Peoples Temple one and only album to Luther Vandross.
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The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.
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I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
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I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.
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I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.
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I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
