J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.
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My guess is that if David Beckham wants Ronaldo's jersey, he's going to get it.
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Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.
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I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
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Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.
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Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.
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I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that.
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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
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We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!