J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
Olly Murs
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
Maeve Binchy
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
Felipe VI of Spain
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
Gary Coleman
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First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
Queen Elizabeth II
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
Vicki Lawrence
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
Karolina Kurkova
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Sally Kirkland
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Rachel Kushner
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
Basmah bint Saud
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor
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I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
Zoe Saldana
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We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
Walid Jumblatt
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Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
Sun Ra
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
Felicity Jones
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Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.
William Moulton Marston
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Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. Tolkien