Alec Guinness Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
Everybody thinks they deserve something.
Wayne Rogers -
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
Wayne Allard -
By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
Wayne Dyer -
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon -
Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
Wendy Davis
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
Natasha Trethewey -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
Hampton Sides -
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle -
Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
Bahman Ghobadi
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Aaron Sorkin -
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
Patrick Chan -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
Walt Mossberg -
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu
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Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.
Franklin Cover -
Like Theresa May, I regularly find myself infuriated by the rantings of Anjem Choudary and other hate preachers.
Deeyah Khan -
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
Beverly Cleary -
I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
Rachel Platten -
I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.
Margaret Mitchell -
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
Alec Guinness