Margery Allingham Quotes
I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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I definitely get inspired by people who are disgusting on some level.
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Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.
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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
