J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
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I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.
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I never smile unless I mean it.
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At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
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When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I'm doing this... that it was bigger than this moment.
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The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.