J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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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.
Naveen Jain
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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.
Natalie Dormer
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
Orhan Pamuk
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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?
Calvin Trillin
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
Eddie Redmayne
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
H. G. Bissinger
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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.
V. E. Schwab
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
Zendaya
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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.
Barack Obama
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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.
Ian Hislop
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
Tate Taylor
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When the government says 'everybody gets equal pay,' you get away from the whole American Dream.
Donald Trump
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Hopefully I can go back and forth from the United States to Asia. I feel joint productions could be the way of the future. I'll need a private plane to charter the international waters!
Godfrey Gao
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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
Orson Scott Card
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If I were a man, I'd be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.
Amber Heard
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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
J. R. R. Tolkien
