Joanne Rowling Quotes
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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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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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
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I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.
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Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
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I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
