J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.
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Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.
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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
