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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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.
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The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.
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One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.
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Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.
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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.
