J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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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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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.
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I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
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If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
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I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.
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We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.
