J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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You have to be yourself.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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'You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.'
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No arts, no letters - no society.
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Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.
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Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
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Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.
