Anna Getty Quotes
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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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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I am an inventor of music.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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Jack: Hey, wait a minute. What kind of make up is this?
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I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and I've been covering other 'upcoming' authors’ books with mine.
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
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I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.
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I try to plan my day around not using my car.
