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Authority figures always attract trouble

J. K. Rowling

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Always Attract Authority Authority Figures Figures Trouble

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J. K. Rowling
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Born: July 31, 1965

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Molly Ivins

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Martha Beck

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.

Alexander Stille

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Richard Seymour

Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

Marge M. Kennedy

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

Stephen King

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Georges St-Pierre

I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

J. K. Simmons

I've always had trouble with authority.

John Milius

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.

Maria Konnikova

The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that want authority for all the wrong reasons, and that is what it has done across all time.

Tobias Forge

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

Jimmy Kimmel

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Gene Hackman

Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they're going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.

Michael Bloomberg

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