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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The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
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“Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.”
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If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my door creaked open. Billy's expression turned to surprise. "Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested. "You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it." "It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.
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These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.
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Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
