J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

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• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

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• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

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• I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

  

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• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  

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• What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

  

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• I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

  

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• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  

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• A film of my life would never happen!

  

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• My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.

  

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• I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

  

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• Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.

  

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• What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

  

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• Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically. It needs to be given a human face. But we cannot allow to fall back into pre-globalization times. So this conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important.

  

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• The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Courage