"If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much."
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"~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~"
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"Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity."
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"But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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"Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion."
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage."
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"In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue."
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"We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself."
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"Patience means self-suffering."
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"A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses."
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"Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering."
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"A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents."
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"Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf."
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"Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories."
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"I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made world was the brainchild of a monster. I mean, slaves built most of the ancient wonders, our city skylines are dominated by the product of sometimes very ruthless capitalist ideals. There's a horrifying thought that I often wonder, which is, are monsters sometimes necessary?"
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"Success to me does not mean money."
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"How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?"
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"You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible."
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"If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio."
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