J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.
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The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.
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The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.
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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
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Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.
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Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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Anybody that says different is selling something.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
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To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!
