J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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Users are open to ads as long as they're relevant to their realtime experience.
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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.
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I want Americans to know that Guantánamo happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.
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People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
