J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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Honey, I just forgot to duck.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.
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I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
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I started looking all over for vineyard sites. I studied the conditions that make the best pinots. In the New World, you have to find the great pieces of land. Cool climate counts, but distinctive soil matters more than anything.
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Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
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I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
