"religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun."
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"It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality."
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"The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people."
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"It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people."
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"Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty..."
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"I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity."
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"And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them."
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"People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature."
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"The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I step into a character, people have to be able to suspend their disbelief; they have to be able to divorce me from Hermiona. And not having everyone know every single intimate detail of my entire life is part of me trying to protect my ability to do my job well."
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"London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared."
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"I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense."
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"I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'"
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"I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects."
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"There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable."
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"There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true."
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"I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened."
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"I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it."
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"May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people."
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"It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health."
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"Man absolutely cannot live by himself."
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