J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier -
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden -
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
Kate Bosworth -
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln -
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Abraham Verghese -
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang -
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
Carla Hall -
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma -
The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
Gary Gygax
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My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
Gail Collins -
A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
Zach Anner -
But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
Patricia Hewitt -
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
Daniel Alarcon -
God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Natura d'ogni cosa piĆ¹ possente.
Ludovico Ariosto
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My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
Dionne Warwick -
My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.
John Lithgow -
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
Agnetha Faltskog -
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills.
Albert Bandura -
We'd rather have Steve being the guy that's taking the shots and making the points than having a bunch of guys get 20 points or 15 points a game.
Phil Jackson -
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
J. R. R. Tolkien