J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
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The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
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Until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.
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None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.
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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
