"As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people."

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Source : Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

Shirley Chisholm

#Powerful Quotes #People Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”
“Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete.”
“In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.”

Source : "Auto-political" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.
“Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.”
“I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.”
“I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.”
“With hard work and focus dreams do come true.”
“One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

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