Joanne Rowling Quotes

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

Joanne Rowling

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Karma

• Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Home
  • Help

• I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Both

• I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Right
  • Born

• Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Up
  • Women
  • Remember

• We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
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