J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
Quotes to Explore
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.
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Faith is a continuation of reason.
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We completely reject the theory of evolution.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
