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.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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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.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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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.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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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.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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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.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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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.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
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You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
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Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.
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Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
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All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
