J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
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I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
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A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
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People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often say they did it for themselves. In one case, a hero said that the cost of not doing it is so great, the sense of shame, when he knew that he was strong enough, that the fear of not doing anything was more frightening than the fear of dying.
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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
