Shirley Chisholm Quotes

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

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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I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

Andres Iniesta

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I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

Anderson Cooper

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My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

Robert Sean Leonard

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As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.

Michael Connelly

WeekendCrimeRightEverythingOut

I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

Amber Valletta

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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

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As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

Trixie Mattel

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I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

Rosa Parks

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Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

Ron Fournier

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The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

Lucy Punch

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It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.

Jon Taffer

GoodGreatToughEasyThings

This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clearly we offended. And the e-mails that were revealed that were hacked.

Donna Brazile

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