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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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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.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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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.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was against you if you wanted to do something like that. But I was determined.
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In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery.
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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
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I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.
