J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.
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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.
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I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
