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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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 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 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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Capital was really safer in Russia than anywhere else. ... No true Marxist would allow sentiment to interfere with business.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
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Each jazz musician when he takes a horn in his hand - trumpet, bass, saxophone, drums - whatever instrument he plays - each soloist, that is, when he begins to ad lib on a given composition with a title and improvise a new creative melody, this man is taking the place of a composer.
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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.
