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.
Zendaya -
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.
Sam Rockwell -
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
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.
Ed O'Neill -
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz -
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
Vince Gill
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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?
Adam Driver -
I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
Taylor Sheridan -
After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.
Hans Frank -
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius -
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.
Khaled Hosseini -
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
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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.
Ausonius -
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?
Edward St Aubyn -
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.
Chelsea Handler -
Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Mason Cooley -
I'm a member at Equinox because I love the classes. I also enjoy hiking, swimming, and skiing.
Hannah Bronfman -
Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline.
Lisa Snowdon
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For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.
Chang-Rae Lee -
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
William Hazlitt -
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
Oscar Wilde -
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
J. R. R. Tolkien