J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

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• Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

  

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• The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

  

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• What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

  

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• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

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• If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

  

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• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

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• You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

  

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• I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

  

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• Be generous! Give!

  

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• There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.

  

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• I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

  

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• Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

  

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• As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

  

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• 'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.

  

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• For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.

  

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• The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.

  

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• You won’t believe this one, folks. Belfour tries to clear the puck in overtime. Nelson Emerson grabs the puck, now watch: he’s skating out in front, he’s got the puck in his hand, Eddie tries to stop him, he reaches around and throws it in the net and, believe it or not, they count it! The Hawks say what are you counting that? [Darryl] Sutter’s not too happy. With video replay, how can they count a goal like that?

  

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• Already London is the biggest centre for Islamic finance outside the Islamic world. But today our ambition is to go further still. Because I don’t just want London to be a great capital of Islamic finance in the Western world. I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world.

  

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• Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

  

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• In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

  

  Ann-Marie MacDonald
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• Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fall
  • Idly