J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day...
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
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I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
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I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.
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Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day...
