Joanne Rowling Quotes

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

Joanne Rowling

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• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Support
  • Incredibly

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • World
  • Years
  • World Cup

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Think
  • Party
  • Tool

• When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Writing
  • Weird

• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • World
  • Country
  • Slavery

• I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • World
  • Kiss
  • Greatest

• I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • World
  • Happy
  • Reading

• When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Myself

• I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

  

  Zendaya
  • World
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Nice

• I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Free markets induce a natural collective reaction by society.

  

  George Ritzer
  • Society
  • Reaction
  • Markets

• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Tree

• I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

  

  Jason Segel
  • Trying
  • Water
  • Weird

• 'They're not going, sir. Not going South.' 'And who made that decision, Sergeant?' 'We all did, sir.' 'Since when, Sergeant, has this army been a... a democracy?' 'A what, sir?' 'Since when did Sergeants outrank Lieutenants?'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Decision
  • Democracy
  • Army

• Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Free
  • Environment
  • Violence

• Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World