J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.
