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Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more.

Opal Tometi

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BrokenFeetViolenceWindowsGo

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

Anna Paquin

HateDayEvery DayCountryCrime

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Sonam Kapoor

FreeYouChoiceFree WillPersonal

I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

Tony Harrison

LoveFailureMyselfFindPlaySaid

Absence - that common cure of love.

Lord Byron

LoveAbsenceCommonCure

'Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up.

Lisa Jewell

TimeRomanticTogetherHappyKiss

I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!

Johnny Thunders

HomePoliceNew YorkLookingBack

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

Diana Gabaldon

FamilyMeRoadWhyNeverTrip

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

Dennis Miller

FightPeopleCountryHumanPoint

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Chief Joseph

TimeWaterMenMountainsGoldShort

I'm an average, everyday girl.

Chloe Grace Moretz

GirlEverydayAverage

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

Cornelia Parker

LifeArtSchoolFreeMy LifeYears

I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.

Ariel Pink

FailureMusicPeopleStupidIgnore

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