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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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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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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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.
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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 would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
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'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.
