J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Sourav is a very positive captain. Whatever his personal form, whatever the media writes about him, he has always been strong, focused and aggressive. Perhaps these are the qualities that make him India's most successful captain.
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Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.
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The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
