J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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It's not about the money with me.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
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Cruisin' down the street in my six-fo' jockin' da bitches slappin da hoes
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
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We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
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Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
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Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
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That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.
