J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
Larry Wilmore
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown Band
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
Nat King Cole
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Barbara Boxer
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Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.
Marti Noxon
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There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.
Daniel Inouye
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Odd, how different different men’s fears could be.
Tanith Lee
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If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.
Daniel Pennac
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. Tolkien
