J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.
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Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.
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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
