J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Good material is good material.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.
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After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat.
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Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.
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The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
