Helen McCrory Quotes
I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
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Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
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Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.
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Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.
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I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
