J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.
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I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.
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Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.
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What defines a Western? I've probably seen three my whole life.
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Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.
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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
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I'm not in business to make money.
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If Palin lawyer thomas van flein thinks palin has been 'defamed' he is delusional. Birds of a feather....
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Boni duces publico certamine numquam nisi ex occasione aut nimia necessitate confligunt.
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I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.
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We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.
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Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.
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I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
