Alec Guinness Quotes
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.
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I love scoring - even in training.
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.
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There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
