J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.

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• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
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• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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• I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

  

  Dan Rather
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• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  

  Xi Jinping
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• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
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• I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

  

  Laura Wade
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• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
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• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
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• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

  

  Zong Qinghou
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• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
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• I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

  

  Ed Lee
  • Up
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• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
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  • Corner

• We believe content relationships are compelling draws even where paid-TV-provided guides are prevalent, such as here in the United States.

  

  Alfred Amoroso
  • Believe

• The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

  

  Angelina Grimke
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• When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Kid
  • Late

• Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Morning
  • Discipline
  • Planet

• 'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Power