Alec Guinness Quotes
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
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I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.
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For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success.
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Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.