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 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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The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.
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I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.
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I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves... But I don't do things because people always like what I do.
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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.