J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
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It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
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The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
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Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.
