J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
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Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR.
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I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.
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I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.
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There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.
