J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
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The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
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Reach for the stars not drugs.
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.
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There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
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One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.
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I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
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May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
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[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.
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I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
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Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
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Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
