J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

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• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

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• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  

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• There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
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• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  

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• I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • End
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• Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

  

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  • Myself
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  • Season

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

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  • People
  • Life
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• I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Successful
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• Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

  

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  • People
  • Care
  • Listening

• The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • You
  • Nothing

• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Hope
  • Look
  • Difficult

• Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Business
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• Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

  

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  • Love
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• I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
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• The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

  

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  • Always
  • Wind
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• Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

  

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  • Stress
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• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  

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  • Speak
  • Television
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• No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Understand
  • Resist
  • Fascination