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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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
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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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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
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It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.
