Joanne Rowling Quotes
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Quotes to Explore
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works. I mean, a lot of the kids I know are really politically involved. They really care about politics. I think we're going to have an incredible impact on how politics end up shaking this country.
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Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
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Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
