Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I do not cook.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.
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Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.
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But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.
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Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.
