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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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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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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When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.
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I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.
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It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.
