J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I love to fly so much.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
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There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Hal: God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes.
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We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.
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When the privacy of property is denied the privacy of conscience cannot be tolerated. Ideals which do not conform with the prescribed 'social good' are obviously a threat to it and must be obliterated.
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People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
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If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
