J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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We were descended from royalty.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.
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You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
