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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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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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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In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
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Whether you realize it or not, how you slept last night probably has a bigger impact on your life than what you decide to eat, how much money you make, or where you live. All of those things that add up to what you consider you—your creativity, emotions, health, and ability to quickly learn a new skill or devise a solution to a problem—can be seen as little more than by-products of what happens inside your brain while your head is on a pillow each night. It is part of a world that all of us enter and yet barely understand … Sleep isn’t a break from our lives. It’s the missing third of the puzzle of what it means to be living.
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Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
