J K Rowling Famous Quotes

Joanne "Jo" Rowling (born 31 July 1965) is a British author notable for writing the Harry Potter series. She is most widely known as J. K. Rowling, a pen name devised using Kathleen as a middle name that she got from her grandmother.

J K Rowling Quotes

Famous Quotes of J.K. Rowling

1. "Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
2. "Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
3. "Death is just life's next big adventure."
4. "If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
5. “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
6. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies."
7. "Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."
8. "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
9. "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
10. "There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it."
11. "What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does."
12. "You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
13. "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
14. “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
15. “You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
16. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
17. “We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
18. “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
20. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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J.K. Rowling - Short Biography

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, (born 31 July 1965), better known as J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies to become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment. Rowling conceived the idea for the series on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990.

J.K Rowling

Rowling has led a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on social security to multi-millionaire status within five years. As of March 2011, when its latest world billionaires list was published, Forbes estimated Rowling's net worth to be US$1 billion.As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit.

On February 23, 2012, Little, Brown & Company announced it would publish Rowlings first novel for adults.

JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech video June 5, 2008

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J K Rowling has received the following honors and awards:

1. 1997: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2. 1998: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. 1998: British Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
4. 1999: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. 1999: National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
6. 1999: Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
7. 2000: British Book Awards, Author of the Year
8. 2000: Order of the British Empire, Officer
9. 2001: Hugo Award for Best Novel, winner Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
10. 2003: Premio Príncipe de Asturias, Concord
11. 2003: Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers, winner Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
12. 2006: British Book of the Year, winner for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
13. 2007: Blue Peter Badge, Gold
14. 2008: British Book Awards, Outstanding Achievement
15. 2009: Légion d'honneur, presented by French President Nicolas Sarkozy
16. 2010: Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, inaugural award winner
17. 2011: British Academy Film Awards, Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema for the Harry Potter film series, shared with David Heyman, cast and crew
18. Honorary degrees: St Andrews University, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Exeter, Harvard University
    

Get more information of J.K Rowling

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IMDb at imdb.com/name/nm0746830
Wikipedia article on J. K. Rowling
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J.K. Rowling's new novel for adults

J.K. Rowling, the British author whose “Harry Potter” fantasy series ignited a passion for reading for millions of children around the world, has emerged from a five-year publishing hiatus with a new book: this time for adults. Little, Brown and Company, part of the Hachette Book Group, said on Thursday it had acquired the rights to publish the new book, whose title and publication date was not named.

J.K. Rowling's new novel for adults.

“Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my other publishers around the world,” Ms. Rowling said in a statement. “The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry’s success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life.”

The first Harry Potter book was released by Scholastic in the United States in 1998 under the name “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Six more novels in the series followed, quickly becoming the fastest-selling books in history. They have been translated into roughly 70 languages. In 2007, on the first day of publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final book in the series, the book sold 11 million copies. (Ms. Rowling also released “Tales of Beedle the Bard,” a collection of fairy tales whose net proceeds went to a charity Ms. Rowling co-founded.)

The series was an enormous boon to bookstores, which sponsored midnight parties when the books were released, drawing both children and adults who dressed in full costume.

Ms. Rowling and the Harry Potter series made news last year with the announcement of Pottermore, an interactive Web site where e-book editions of the Harry Potter books would be available for the first time, as well as fantasy gaming components that would be tied into the books. The site was scheduled to be introduced last October, but has been delayed.

She admitted that working on the project, which has been in development for several years, allowed her to "stay in touch" with the period in her life when she was writing the stories. She said: "It is true to say that finishing writing Harry, I have only cried that much, ever in my life, when my mum died.

"I've never cried for a man like I've cried for Harry Potter."

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Leaked Facebook document reveals nudity and violence guidelines: Scribd

A set of guidelines on which types of images are acceptable for publication on Facebook has reportedly been leaked.
According to the Gawker.com website the document was leaked by a disgruntled employee at a third party company used by Facebook to moderate users' content.

Facebook's photo guidelines are 'revealed'

A former employee who used to filter out offensive content on Facebook has leaked the website's secret rulebook, which gives astonishingly detailed instructions that include blocking mild nudity but allowing images of death and disfigurement, as well as racially charged comments.

An aggrieved Moroccan worker who was paid a mere $1 an hour by oDesk - a third-party content-moderation firm used by Facebook - revealed it tells staff to delete all forms of sexual activity, even simulated activity where there was nothing explicit on show.

Images likely to be removed include those showing "female nipple bulges", "naked butt cracks" or women breastfeeding without clothes on.

However, same sex kissing, "groping" and "foreplay" is allowed.

The leak follows protests from women unhappy that images of breastfeeding were removed.

The site was also accused of homophobia after a picture of two men kissing was taken down.

Despite the recent controversy users were unaware of exact guidelines used by Facebook to decide which pictures should be taken down.

Images must first be flagged by users before they are brought to moderators' attention.

The document goes into specific detail about dozens of examples of images which should be removed.

Urine, faeces, vomit, semen, pus and ear wax are all banned.

Although cartoon faeces, urine, and spit are allowed.

Snot, both real and cartoon, would also escape the censors, as would deep flesh wounds and excessive blood.

Images of bone, muscles and tendons would be likely to go.

The document also calls for immediate escalation for images of the Turkish flag being burned, attacks (visual or written) on the first President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and, amazingly, maps depicting Kurdistan. It’s not clear if these restrictions are specific to Turkish users, or if they affect everyone.

In a statement Facebook said: "In an effort to quickly and efficiently process the millions of reports we receive every day, we have found it helpful to contract third parties to provide precursory classification of a small proportion of reported content.

"We have, and will continue, to escalate the most serious reports internally, and all decisions made by contractors are subject to extensive audits".

Leaked Facebook document reveals website's secretive and bizarre 'graphic content' policy: Scribd

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George Washington Famous Quotes

George Washington (22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783 and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797.

George Washington
(22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799)

The son of a prosperous planter, Washington was raised in colonial Virginia. As a young man, he worked as a surveyor then fought in the French and Indian War (1754-63). During the American Revolution, he led the colonial forces to victory over the British and became a national hero.

In 1787, he was elected president of the convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution. Two years later, Washington became America's first president. Realizing that the way he handled the job would impact how future presidents approached the position, he handed down a legacy of strength, integrity and national purpose. Less than three years after leaving office, he died at his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, at age 67.

Famous Quotes of George Washington

1. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.


2. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.


3. Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.


4. Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.


5. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.


6. Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.


7. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.


8. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.


9. Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.


10. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.


11. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.


12. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.


13. Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.


14. I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.


15. I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.


16. It is better to be alone than in bad company.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

17. It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.


18. Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.


19. Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.


20. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.


21. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.


22. Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.


23. My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.


24. Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.


25. Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.


26. Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.


27. The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.


28. The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.


29. The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.


30. The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.


31. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.


32. The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.


33. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.


34. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.


35. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.


36. Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.


37. War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.


38. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.


39. When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.


40. Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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Kimble Goes Monaco Part II - Kim Dotcom's Lavish trip to Monaco Full Documentary

Kimble Goes Monaco Part II is a road documentary about a lavish trip to Monaco, including a cruise on a rented yacht. Kim Schmitz's (Kim Dotcom founder of Megaupload ) self-funded 2001 ‘documentary’ Kimble Goes Monaco Part II saw Dotcom and friends spend £6.3m in one hedonistic Monaco grand prix weekend. The documentry was punctuated with Schmitz playing with expensive toys, and featured a bizarre Bill-Gates-is-spying-on-me subplot.

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“Kimble Goes Monaco Part II,” like all sequels, strains to top its predecessor; it’s the Teflon Don to Part I’s Port of Miami. More Ferraris! More hangers-on! A more lavish steam-table banquet! A champagne-spritzing Saint Tropez lingerie party! A Trap-a-Holics-style announcer peppering his German-language narration with stray English phrases like “all-inclusive,” “The boys are in town!,” “Kim-pire,” and “Fireworks, DJ, laser show!” Kim-posse members like Keiwan, Matthias and Gitta return, but they’re preceded in the credits—which borrow the theme music and wipe effects from Dynasty’s opening sequence by some new faces. Here’s Finn Batato, who would go on to become Megaupload’s chief marketing officer; he was arrested on Thursday, too. (The indictment names him as part of the overall MegaConspiracy but also specifically charges him with having circulated Megaupload links to infringing copies of the movies My Blueberry Nights and Dan in Real Life and Louis Armstrong’s recording of the song “We Have All The Time In The World,” which anyone attuned to the James Bondian aspects of this case will recognize as a soundtrack cut from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.)

Here, too, and all over the video, is Frank Lämmermann, sort of a German Jean-Ralphio type with a towering head of shellacked ich-bin-un-zany-comedian hair, acting as de facto master of ceremonies. Lämmermann was apparently a presenter on the German music/entertainment network Viva at the time, and went on to conquer America with an appearance on Pauly Shore’s TBS series Minding the Store, which Google indicates was a thing that existed. A German message-board poster once said of Lämmermann, “For, instead of encouraging you to laugh stimulates only! Apart from that the guy is so annoying that one feels after a short time to give him the urge to become one with the baseball bat.” We’re pretty sure we agree; although his presence as host frees up Schmitz himself to drink out of a punchbowl and whip his male associates’ bare asses with a belt, it lends a self-conscious, Billionaires Gone Wild vibe to the proceedings, especially when Lämmermann is walking around with a shotgun mic interviewing women about their nipples.

Like the Jersey Shore kids returning to Karma, the Kimble Clan returns to the Autobahn, to the zuper-yacht, and eventually to Jimmy*z. They’ve been coming to this same party for years, and in no way is that depressing! The party continues back on the yacht—fireworks, DJ, lasershow!—and at some point Keiwan, egged on by other party guests, eats a whole onion. In a way, we’re lucky that all Kim went on to do was change his name to “Dotcom” and (allegedly) aid in the file-sharing-abetted downfall of the content industry; there’s a sociopathic emptiness to the proceedings on display in this second video. This is the party you have before you have the party where you rent out an island and hunt humans for sport.

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Kimble Goes Monaco - Kim Dotcom's Lavish trip to Monaco Full Documentary

Kimble Goes Monaco is a road documentary about a lavish trip to Monaco, including a cruise on a rented yacht. Kim Schmitz's (Kim Dotcom founder of Megaupload ) self-funded 2001 ‘documentary’ Kimble Goes To Monaco saw Dotcom and friends spend £6.3m in one hedonistic Monaco grand prix weekend. The documentry was punctuated with Schmitz playing with expensive toys, and featured a bizarre Bill-Gates-is-spying-on-me subplot.

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This documentary is in German, without subtitles, but you’ll get the gist in English : 
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Lavishing Live of Kim Dotcom

According to the retrospectively-ironic title card at the end—steal this chintzily edited home movie!) Opens with the Dallas theme music and a montage introducing Schmitz and the Kimble Clan, including bespectacled “Matthias ‘SCUZZY’ Ortmann” (the future CTO of Megaupload, nailed along with Kim on Thursday), a white guy and a black woman billed as “Fanta & Cola,” and “Vicci and Gitta, the Bunnies.” (Gitta is apparently Gitta Saxx, voted Germany’s Playmate of the Century in 2000, and featured in 2011 on Ich Bin Ein Star, Holt Mich Hier Raus!, the German version of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.)

Kim rocks a stylish short-sleeved black kimono, shorts and two-tone wingtips; Kim poses with his fleet of Ferraris, with his Kimble.org helicopter. Kim and his buddy Keiwan Mirhaidari head-bob and air-guitar to a trance remix of “Rescue Me” while pushing 160 on the Autobahn from Munich to Monaco.

It’s all very nerds-with-new-money: Kim can afford to buy or rent a helicopter with his URL on it but instead of champagne we see him drinking a can of regular Coke from a 24-pack.

Then it’s nighttime, and we’re in Monaco, onboard “die zuper-zuper-yacht”—the Golden Odyssey, a 266-foot luxury motor yacht owned by Khalid bin Sultan, now Saudi Arabia’s Assistant Minister of Defense. The yacht has stairs, a coral-reef fish tank and a gym where women in heels can run on a treadmill if you happen to be making a documentary about the crazy shit that happens at your yacht parties. The guests at his fancy yacht party look like actors playing fancy-yacht-party guests in a porn film. Come aboard! Kimble ist expecting you!

Then it’s off to Jimmy*z, in Monaco (onscreen title: “PARTY TIME”), a nightclub where George Clooney is said to have enjoyed himself. Kim and his crew dance; Kim telegraphs his uncomfortableness by making goofy faces at the camera.

Then unglaublich!—he runs into somebody who totally looks like Richard Branson and they have a 20-second conversation. The next day, they spot Branson again, from their luxury box at a Formula One race, although he doesn’t seem to know he’s being filmed.

Then there’s a weird sequence in which Matthias Ortmann pretends to be sabotaging the race using his laptop and a program called “Kimble’s F1 Hacker.” He types in “EXPLODE”; cut to a pit crew frantically fixing one of the race cars.

An announcer says, in English: “Oh my God—Schumacher is out of the race! His car seems to have major problems. Schumacher stays in the pit, but I’m pretty sure Kimble has nothing to do with it.” Cut to Kim pretending to cry like a baby, then cackling, giving the finger and making a fart noise. Later, there are speedboats. Announcer: “Oh, shit! [German German German] speedboat [German German.]”

Over the end credits, we see a Flash-animated cartoon of Kimble as a superspy going after Bill Gates (for “distribution of corrupt code”—Kim was known for proclaiming himself Gates’ intellectual superior in interviews) and, for some reason, Slobodan Milosevic; parties thanked in the credits include Haddaway, Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Boris Becker, “Kims Mama,” “Kims Psychiater,” Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Porsche, “und ale meine Freunde.”

The English-language lyrics to the end-credits theme song are as follows:
Internet superhero
Ready to get down
We don’t work
We just fool around
We take the time we have to make up another sound
Like reaching in the bag I pull out my mouse
It’s like chipping[?] my computer to create some fat sounds

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