Joanne Rowling Quotes
Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
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It doesn't matter whether the market is up or down. All the day traders want is volatility.
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For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
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Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.
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What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
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Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!
