J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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I have no literary fears.
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.
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I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.
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The doctrine of the cynics is the Ideal reversed, the parody of physical and moral beauty, the crime of mind, the degradation of imagination. I could not take pleasure in it. There was too much enthusiasm within me to permit me to crawl through those sinks of the brain. My nature had wings. The dangers to which I was exposed were above, not below.
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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.