J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas
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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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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
Naomi Klein
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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.
Gabriel Medina
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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
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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.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
Iris Murdoch
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When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.
Megan Fox
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I don't see any particular problem with that.
Jimmy Wales
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I can watch a film, even a film that I've been in, and think, 'I'm not sure, 100 percent, what I think about it.' I'm not sure what I think about what I've done in it.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.
Deborah Wiles
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'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.
J. R. R. Tolkien