Joanne Rowling Quotes
If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
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One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
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The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
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It's awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I'm not on the same wavelength.
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If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.
