J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

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I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.