J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke -
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash -
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan -
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
Jackie Speier
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
Gagan Narang -
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
M. Ward -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
Laila Robins -
It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
Hans Jonas -
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice Wood
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
Randall Park -
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
Orrin Hatch -
Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
P. J. O'Rourke -
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
Alan Alda -
It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.
Jason Kilar -
Don't fear change - embrace it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo -
I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.
Jean Pigozzi -
Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
William Penn -
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
John Calvin -
Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.
J. R. R. Tolkien