J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Vin Scully -
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.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar -
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.
Daniel Boone -
A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
Malorie Blackman
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
Xenophanes -
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
Edna O'Brien -
I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
Laura Prepon -
I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
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.
Malin Akerman
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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.
Jack Schwartz -
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.
Patrick Whitesell -
'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.
Ian Mckellen -
I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
Naima Adedapo -
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
Salman Rushdie -
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia
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I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.
Imogen Poots -
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
James McGreevey -
I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
T. J. Miller -
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane -
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
Rainn Wilson -
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien