"I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble."

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Source : Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Dashiell Hammett

#Mind Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.”
“The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.”
“For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.”
“Youâ€™re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and BeyoncÃ© concert, and youâ€™re not like, â€˜Mmm, I feel like BeyoncÃ© should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z.'”
“I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.”
“It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings are headed while we're quite young. But the beauty of all this uncertainty would be that in the process of exhausting all the possibilities, we might actually stumble unconsciously into the recognition of something that's useful to us, that speaks to a deep need within ourselves. At the same time, I like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can't know exactly what it is we are doing.”
“You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.”
“Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.”

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