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.
Natalie Imbruglia
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul
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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.
Carl Hiaasen
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
Harold H. Greene
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
Zig Ziglar
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Ed Wood
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
Earl Weaver
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
Damian Woetzel
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
Karl Pilkington
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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.
Rahm Emanuel
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
Edward Abbey
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Saying 'no' is so heartbreaking.
Britney Spears
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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.
Charlie Cox
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My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris Murdoch
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I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing.
Donald Rumsfeld
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin
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It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
J. R. R. Tolkien