Margery Allingham Quotes
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
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The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
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I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
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A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
