J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
Dan Hill -
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna -
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
Beck -
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Zaha Hadid -
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Mae West -
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
Otis Rush
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
R. Kelly -
Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
Dan Quinn -
In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
Jack Lemmon -
If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
Karin Slaughter
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
Rand Paul -
I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
Tavi Gevinson -
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes -
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
Harold H. Greene -
I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
Sadie Frost -
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
Patricia Schroeder
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
Abbey Clancy -
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
Kate DiCamillo -
My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I like going after good material, well-written material.
Sam Underwood -
I like retirement.
Barry Sanders -
I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. Tolkien