Joanne Rowling Quotes

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.

Joanne Rowling

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• We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Nothing
  • Orange
  • Butter

• I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Car
  • Car Accident

• For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Small
  • Lose
  • Aim

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Thought

• I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• I buy way too many books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Way
  • Books
  • Buy

• I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • I Can

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Business
  • Death

• I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • True
  • Want
  • Lonely

• When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • House
  • Singing

• I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be fair, the last there. Megan Smith left, Claire Hughes Johnson, vice presidents at Google left.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Women
  • Senior

• Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

  

  Jerry Reed Hubbard
  • Good
  • Work
  • Faith

• When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Why
  • Remember

• I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Luck
  • Hard Work
  • Leads