J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.
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Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.
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Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
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Unlike the U.S., Iran has no problems with low-voter turnout in elections; the last time, the government got the support of 110 per cent of the population.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.
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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
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Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
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Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'
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I could see myself as a glitter-hippie.
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Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life
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It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
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If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
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There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.
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Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact.
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I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.
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I begin each book with a challenge to myself.
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O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha!
