Joanne Rowling Quotes
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
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I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
