J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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My feelings about Michael Jackson are simple I think that um he's a human being like everyone else and I'm a huge fan of Michael and um nobody is perfect.
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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
