J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J. R. R. Tolkien
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
Jack Keane -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
Jack Nicholson -
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
Adam Mansbach -
Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
Cameron Winklevoss
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
Gary Bettman -
Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown -
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell -
God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills
Angelus Silesius -
I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.
Lucy Lawless -
I don't want to be a big movie star.
Katharine Ross -
I just want to play music with a band, live.
Jessica Mauboy
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What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
Ma Jun -
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie -
After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.
Nirmala Srivastava -
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien