J. K. Rowling Quotes

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

J. K. Rowling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 31, 1965

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FunnyBestSocietyRichYouFind

I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

Jennifer Egan

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I would argue that the U.S. health care system is broken for reasons other than innovation.

John Carreyrou

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I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.

John Waters

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I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

Roger Moore

WantRememberedPaidJustSomebody

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Rupert Murdoch

ChildrenHealthGovernmentPeople

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.

Dick Van Dyke

StressPeopleBelieveThinkYouGo

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

Doug Liman

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I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

Daymond John

EducationNatureThinkYouHustle

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

David Soul

TimeUpBeingMoveMakeRewards

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

WorkConflictMeasureTragedyTribe

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

Peter Eisenman

WifeTasteHerStuff

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

Paula Malcomson

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