J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
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When you send out real love, real love will return to you.
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And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
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And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
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It's devastating to lose anybody in your family. But I don't know a man who's not close with his mom.
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We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
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Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
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One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.
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If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
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I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
