J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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Es muss demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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Every man and every woman is a star.
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I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will
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American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
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The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
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As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
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I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
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People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
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A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.
