Margery Allingham Quotes
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Great men marry great women.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.
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If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
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Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and his supporters don`t mind.
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Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
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Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
