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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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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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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My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.
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I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.
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Art is no longer a visual sensation that we gather, like a photograph, as it were, of nature. No, it is a creation of our spirit, for which nature is only the occasion.
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A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
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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.
