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“I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we're paying with our time and our data. We're also paying with money, because the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising is just factored into the cost of the goods that we buy. It's all coming out of our pocket, just in a really roundabout way.”
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“I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.”
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“I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?”
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“Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.”
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“I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?”
Source : Frances Fox Piven (2013). “Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate”, p.68, The New Press
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“At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled”
Source : "Q&A Brenda Blethyn". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006. 
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“I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being...So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another...One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!”
