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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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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.
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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.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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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.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
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We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
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Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
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I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
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The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
