J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'
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Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.
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'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.
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You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
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Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
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If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.
