Alec Guinness Quotes
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.Alec Guinness
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls -
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
Kate Winslet -
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
Gary Zukav -
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso -
I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
Viggo Mortensen -
I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
Kat Graham
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
Dan Brown -
It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
Owen Hart -
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
Farnaz Fassihi -
I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
Hannah Kearney -
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
Sam Shepard -
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
Nadia Giosia -
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
Ada Yonath -
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Irvine Welsh
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There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'
David Quammen -
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James A. Baldwin -
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
Luke Bryan -
Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.
Barack Obama -
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
Adrian Rogers -
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
Alec Guinness