J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
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We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
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The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.
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Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking, "Why am I doing such and such thing ? What is the effect of my doing ? What is the result of my behaviour ? Is it good for me or bad for me ? " , then wisdom comes.
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Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.
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Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
