J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Barbara Mandrell -
My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
Gary Johnson -
There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
J. R. Moehringer -
250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
Barry McGuigan -
I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
Carly Fiorina
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
Halima Aden -
I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
Vijender Singh -
And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
Mackenzie Astin -
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
E. O. Wilson -
My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.
Jamila Woods
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I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
Christopher Guest -
I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
Patty Judge -
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
Alice Sebold -
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare -
A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
Craig Robinson -
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
Charles Bukowski -
It will spell out that we are approaching the end of the final opportunity that Saddam Hussein was given to completely disarm in substance as well as process.
Jack Straw -
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
For nothing is evil in the beginning.
J. R. R. Tolkien