J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Having children with someone is the real bond.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
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With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.
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People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.
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A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
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People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.
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My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.
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If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
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After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
