Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
Owen Paterson -
You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
Flip Wilson -
When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
Adam DeVine -
But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
Ed Bradley -
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
Gary Bauer
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
Ed Rollins -
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
Edith Widder -
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
Dan Harmon -
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
Jaan Tallinn
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
Harry Caray -
It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
Nadia Comaneci -
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Daniel Barenboim -
Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
Oscar Nunez -
Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
Hansika Motwani -
I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
Zosia Mamet
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
Samantha Stosur -
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln -
Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
Jaclyn Smith -
I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
Sakshi Tanwar -
To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.
Natsuki Takaya -
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Joanne Rowling