J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
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• I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Girl
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• After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • World
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• Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
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• Well, I'm an independent person.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Person
  • Independent
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• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
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• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
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• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Boy
  • Rose
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• I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • People
  • Integrity
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• Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • You
  • Know
  • Car

• The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel that it's part of my job and my duty - especially where I'm from - to speak the language of the people I'm around and speak for them.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • People
  • Job

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Media

• In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

  

  Andrew P. Harris
  • Focus

• My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Opinions
  • Patriotism