J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
Irene Rosenfeld
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
Viktor Orban
Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
Parker Posey
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke
Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
K. Flay
My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
Kate Winslet
In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
Yuji Horii
Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
Patricia Heaton
You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
Victoria Osteen
I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
Christopher Walken
For the pie scene, people asked if I read the script and said: 'Oh my god, do I have to do that?' No - I said: 'I hope that's me. I hope I get that part.''
Jason Biggs
I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France.
Francois Nars
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
Jackie Evancho
The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
Annie Jacobsen
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
J. R. R. Tolkien
