Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
A. J. P. Taylor
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That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
Alan Parsons
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.
H. G. Wells
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Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.
Michael E. Mann
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But these thoughts broke apart in his head and were replaced by strange fragments: This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air.
Emily St. John Mandel
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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
Michel Houellebecq
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Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.
Nell Zink
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
Shirley Chisholm
