Joanne Rowling Quotes
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
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You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.
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Listen to me brother! bring the
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
