J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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I don't care about revenues.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.
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I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
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A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.
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And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
