Joanne Rowling Quotes
Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")
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I was a really big kid.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.
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Computers make me totally blank out.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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I'm sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media... At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, 'Why don't you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.' But I don't want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life.
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I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.
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Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.
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Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")
