J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
Irina Shayk
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
J. D. Vance
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
R. J. Cutler
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
Kal Penn
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
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If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
Kevin Ayers
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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
David Mamet
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When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized. (p. 47)
Marshall McLuhan
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Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.
Deepak Chopra
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I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'
James Purefoy
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Third time pays for all.
J. R. R. Tolkien