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  There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

  Emma Watson

  Strong Women, Overcoming, Have Faith

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• But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

  Emma Watson

  Mistake, Journey, Order

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Dec 21, 2012

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• There's nothing interesting about looking perfect.

  Emma Watson

  Perfect, Interesting

  "Emma Enchanted". www.teenvogue.com. June 21, 2009.

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• There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

  Emma Watson

  Fashion, Life Changing, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jul 24, 2012

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  IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

  Emma Watson

  Equality, Two, Feminist

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• The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Feminist, Guy

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• Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

  Emma Watson

  Strong, Men, Sensitive Man

  "Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too". UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign, New York, www.unwomen.org. September 20, 2014.

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• How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

  Emma Watson

  Equality, Half, World

  Emma Watson's Speech on Gender Equality at the United Nations, www.thoughtco.com. February 26, 2018.

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Exaltation

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  "Managing technology products" by Joseph Mancuso, (p. 160), 1975.

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• I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

  Emma Watson

  Strong, Powerful, Thinking

  "Guest Post: Why we Need More 'Warrior Princesses' Like Hermione Granger by Natalie Wilson" by Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  "Emma Watson: I wear too much makeup". www.today.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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• Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Organization, Progress, Spirit

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• The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Change, Business, Block

  Thomas J. Watson (1963). “A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.”

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• You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Business, Scratches, News

  Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.386, Bantam

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• We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

  Emma Watson

  Trying, Damage

  "25 Times Emma Watson Was Our Girl Crush" by Sam Reed, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 15, 2015.

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• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Pain, Doe, Detective Work

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• I feel like young girls are told, I don’t know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I’d be a warrior princess definitely.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Princess, Warrior

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• I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

  Emma Watson

  Song, Memories, Book

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Oct 27, 2013

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• If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Fun, Business, Kids

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• For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Men, Opportunity

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

  Emma Watson

  Successful, Thinking, Skins

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  I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

  Emma Watson

  Being Yourself, Want, Figures

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Aug 02, 2012

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