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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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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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 think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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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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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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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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'Trumbo' is conventional in its structure, mixing interviews with archival footage. What I enjoyed most about the film was its liberal use of his own personal letters to friends and family, performed dramatically by well-known actors.
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Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
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His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
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I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
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My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
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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.
