Alec Guinness Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.
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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.
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As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.
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Sometimes, however, there is more than hope. Sometimes there is reason.
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...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
