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.
Zeljko Ivanek -
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier -
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden -
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen -
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.
Kate Bosworth
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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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln -
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Abraham Verghese -
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang -
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
Carla Hall -
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
Gary Gygax -
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
Gail Collins -
I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
Zach Anner -
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.
Patricia Hewitt -
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
Daniel Alarcon
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God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
You go through stuff, and you keep going.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.
Marcia Gay Harden -
When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.
Paul A. Volcker -
You help families focus on the future through their children.
Sam Worthington -
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
J. R. R. Tolkien