Joanne Rowling Quotes
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
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Death is just life's next big adventure.
