Shirley Chisholm Quotes

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shirley Chisholm

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005

Topics

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At home, I like my kids to drink out of stainless steel tumblers. They are non-breakable and non-toxic.

Anna Getty

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I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped.' That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for 'Beautiful' existed, so obviously I was affected.

Trixie Mattel

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I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.

David Shields

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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Arthur Erickson

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Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

Arancha Gonzalez

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

William S. Burroughs

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For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

Shelley Duvall

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Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Noam Chomsky

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I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

Martin Landau

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Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

Lenny Kravitz

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I'm not nearly as big as I was, but I attribute that to eating healthy. I'm just not a skinny girl, and I just want to give more opportunities to people like me.

Kelly Price

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I think I make most of my decisions pretty organically.

Kurt Elling

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