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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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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Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
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People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
