J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
Daley Thompson -
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh -
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
Patrick Carman -
I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
Wendy O. Williams -
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
Sally Mann
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
Paddy Considine -
I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
Edgardo Osorio -
You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Harold Pinter -
You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
Jack O'Brien -
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
Gaby Hoffmann
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
Dan Rather -
Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.
Ani DiFranco -
Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!
Edward Lear -
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.
Andrew Johnson -
Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.
Leonardo da Vinci -
We suffered a tragedy not one of us could have thought would happen in our country. And we picked ourselves up and sorted ourselves out as all good British people do, and I thought, let us stand together for we are British! They were trying to destroy the fundamental freedom that is the birth-right of every British citizen, freedom, justice and democracy.
Margaret Thatcher
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In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
Maajid Nawaz -
I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.
Clive Sinclair -
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
Octavio Paz -
A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.
Gautama Buddha -
Mind your P's and Q's.
J. R. R. Tolkien