J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
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After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quislegerit, hic sapiet.Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet istasomnia missa sibi.
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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
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I'm a member at Equinox because I love the classes. I also enjoy hiking, swimming, and skiing.
