Margery Allingham Quotes
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
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Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
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What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.
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The BRIT awards is a really great occasion, especially for us Brits, because it shows the talent and support coming from our country.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
