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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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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There's been a progression in my sound.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
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I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'
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Thoughts which come at a call Are no better than if they came not at all Neither flower nor fruit, Yielding no root For plant, shrub, or tree.
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There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
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Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.
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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...
