Joanne Rowling Quotes
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of Modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade zoo during the NATO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs.
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Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
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Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.
