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!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Dani Shapiro
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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.
Victor Francis Hess
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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.
Cameron Mackintosh
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai
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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.
Fidel Castro
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling
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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.
Yanar Mohammed
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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.
Barack Obama
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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.
Barack Obama
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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.
Chogyam Trungpa
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We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.
Francine Rivers
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If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'
Sarah Palin
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A lot of young artists in particular think you can just do one great thing and then sit back and collect checks. Most artists, even people like Dan Clowes, who's one of my heroes, don't just do comics. He does paid illustration. He writes screenplays, and so forth, working and selling lots of different things.
Nicole J. Georges
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I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
Jack Nicklaus
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I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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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!
J. R. R. Tolkien
