J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.
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I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
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As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I'd ever be able to hack being single again.
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What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
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The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
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I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.
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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
