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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When you stop hoping you start settling.
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It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
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Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
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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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We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.
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I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
