Estelle Getty Quotes
The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
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When I decided to leave the military, I realized that the skills I acquired there were transferable to the commercial world both in leadership and the information technology field. I made the decision to move to Oracle because of its strong leadership role.
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I'm slightly ambivalent to the whole relationship between the whole advertising world and music. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it's a really bad mismatch. I think on this occasion its fine because the iPod is like your own mini-library and that can't be a bad thing. It promotes eclecticism and that's very much what we are about so it's a good relationship.
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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
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The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
