Joanne Rowling Quotes
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.
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The course of development
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In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
