J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
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The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.
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We passed an ambitious tax relief package last year, which the president decided to veto, ... This year we will continue to fight for tax relief for working families.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
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If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
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A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living water" will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even "to the end of the earth" regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
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It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.
