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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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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Don't go where I can't follow!
