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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World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
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There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed.
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Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
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A city should decide where it doesn't want to develop, saving at least some of the canyons and hillsides and wetlands from the bulldozer's blade.
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Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
