J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Saying 'no' is so heartbreaking.
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I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.
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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
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Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
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I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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He was a muted egomaniac—he tried to keep his grandiosity under cover—but an egomaniac nonetheless.
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It's another hurdle, another adventure life has presented me, and I'm going to take it in stride.
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It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
