Joanne Rowling Quotes
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.
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How does a band like System of a Down get big?
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Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.
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I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
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I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter
