Joanne Rowling Quotes
There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
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I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
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From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.
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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
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There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
