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Some members of Congress are ...

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

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We Americans have a chance to...

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

I am and always will be a cat...

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

In the end anti-black, anti-f...

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

In the end antiblack, antifema...

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

The emotional, sexual, and psy...

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

You don't make progress by sta...

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

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

Service is the rent that you p...

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

At present, our country needs ...

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

Tremendous amounts of talent a...

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

When morality comes up against...

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

There is little place in the p...

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

The liberals in the House stro...

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 78 quotes

Congress seems drugged and ine...

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

Don't list to those who say YO...

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

Most Americans have never seen...

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

I am not antiwhite, because I ...

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

My God, what do we want? What ...

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

Racism is so universal in this...

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

It is not heroin or cocaine th...

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Shirley Chisholm 78 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....