J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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'What is my identity?' 'Nothing,' said the Master. 'You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?' said the incredulous disciple. 'Nothing that can be labeled.' said the Master.
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Put not your trust in princes.
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'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography. (p. 149)
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!
