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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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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How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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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.
