J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
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There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.
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Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.
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If you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'm, like, everything in moderation, and that's how I approach it.
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Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed to pull money from the pockets of the poor. This problem generally goes unrecognized by policy makers.
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When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?