J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.
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What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
