J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

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• Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.

  

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• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  

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• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

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• Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

  

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• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

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• When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.

  

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• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

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• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

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• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

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• There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

  

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• I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

  

  Adam Arkin
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• The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.

  

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• You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

  

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• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  

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• At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

  

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• I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

  

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• I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

  

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• Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

  

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• When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

  

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  • Success
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• O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Remember
  • Trees
  • Seas