James Surowiecki Quotes
Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
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I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
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I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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This kind of thinking is taking a long view, in which one must also count the imponderables, such as the effort of prolonged depression upon restless social forces; the inevitable necessity for National Socialism to move very far to the Left, the possible revolt of the people everywhere against dawdling tactics of their leaders.
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Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
