J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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I can't say enough about 'OLTL's' strong cast.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
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Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
