Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
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I think a lot of 'Edward Scissorhands' was about the suburban world that Burton grew up in feeling like an outcast. I feel like there's no way it's not at least a little autobiographical from that standpoint. I always liked that.
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Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird.
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It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.
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St. Louis is a very interesting city in terms of accents.
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You're going to see relationships with technology across anything that's brand. I don't care if that's in home or what you wear. I just think it's a new fact of life.
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The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
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Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.
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As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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We think abortion is a bad thing.
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To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
