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.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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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.

  

  Barry Zito
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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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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.

  

  Jack Germond
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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.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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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.'

  

  Raekwon
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• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.

  

  Sally Watson
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• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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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!

  

  Jack Ma
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• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
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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.

  

  Ed O'Neill
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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.

  

  Rand Paul
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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.'

  

  Zach Galligan
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• There's too many people in the world.

  

  William Shatner
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• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

  

  Joseph Heller
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• Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
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• Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.

  

  Mel Gibson
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• And frankly, I'm a huge gold digger and The Miz is about to make a lot of money!

  

  Alex Riley
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• People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

  

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