J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
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Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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Maybe a man can change. It helps when you've been injured, when you've been dislodged from the complacent routines of your life. Sometimes it takes an injury to make you see what you share with others.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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Don't go where I can't follow!
