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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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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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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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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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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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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My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.
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All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
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Silence is refreshment for the soul.
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I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
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When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.
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True silence is the speech of lovers.
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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
