J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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He Corot is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
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Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
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The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.
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Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
