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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Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I love women.
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One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.
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We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.
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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.
