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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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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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.
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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.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens 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.
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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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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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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.
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If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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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.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me 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.
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Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.