J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
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I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.
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That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.
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If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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Not deciding is a decision. People don't realize that not making a decision is a decision in itself.
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Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
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It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.
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I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
