Joanne Rowling Quotes
Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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We just here to do our job.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I've been fighting for my life before and sleeping in cars and trying to find a place to lay my head. I've had situations where I've had nowhere to go. This is the easy part. I overcame life.
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Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.
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As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
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Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
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In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
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Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.
